COMPLICATED CASE OF PNEUMONIA AND GLANDERS. 
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COMPLICATED CASE OF PNEUMONIA AND GLANDERS. 
By H. A. Heisnek. 
A paper read before the Veterinary Society of the University of Pennsylvania. 
Mr. President and Gentlemen : 
I beg leave to occupy a few moments of your valuable 
time to call attention to a very peculiar case I was called 
upon to treat the past summer at my home in Baltimore. I 
think it a very interesting case, if not an instructive one, as I 
have never seen nor heard of a similar one before. 
The patient in question was a bay gelding eight years old, 
well bred and used exclusively for pleasure, as he was a fast 
roadster. I was asked by a friend of the owner to examine 
the horse and treat him if I could do so, and in company with 
this gentleman I called at the stable, where we were met by 
the owner, who stated that he had sent his horse out to pas¬ 
ture ; all the history I could obtain was that during the pre¬ 
vious four weeks the animal had been treated by three quacks 
or horse doctors. 
What the first one treated him for I do not know. The 
latter two, however, treated the animal for kindey trouble, as 
I was told they diagnosed it, and it was upon the advice 
of the last one who treated the animal previous to my first 
visit that the owner sent the horse into the country, this 
quack having told him that this would be all that was neces¬ 
sary to perfect a cure. Such is all the history I could glean 
from the owner. However, I went out to see the horse, and 
after carefully noting the posture assumed by the animal, who 
was standing back in his stall with the head extended on end 
of halter strap, I proceeded to make an examination of the 
animal and noticed the following symptoms, which at once 
convinced me that the quacks had made a serious error in 
their diagnosis. 
Symptoms were : Animal dejected ; visible mucous mem¬ 
branes congested: temperature 1031° F.; respirations ac¬ 
celerated, pulse quickened and weak; on auscultation heard 
crepitant rales and on percussion elicited dullness over both 
