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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
plicants as are non-graduates shall pass an examination which 
shall be deemed sufficient by the Board of Examiners appointed 
for the purpose ; examination to take place at the first annual 
meeting after application has been made” be amended as follows: 
“ Members of this organization shall consist of graduates of re¬ 
cognized veterinary colleges.” 
Under the constitution and by-laws the amendment cannot come 
up for final vote until the next annual meeting. It was the sense 
of the association, however, that the change was a desirable one. 
Dr. Taylor then presented a paper on glandered horses, of 
which the following is a synopsis : 
“ Every intelligent owner of a horse is more or less acquainted 
with that loathsome disease known as glanders, either by tradi¬ 
tion or experience. He is aware that it is both contagious and 
fatal, not only to horses, but also to mankind. The fact that 
the disease has to this day baffled all treatment is sufficient 
evidence why its detection in a stable is always looked upon as 
serious. If the disease always assumed the same character, if 
every glandered horse presented the three special symptoms 
essentially belonging to it, viz., sticky and bloody discharge 
from the nose, hard, painless, inflamed and swollen glands of 
the jaws, and above all the peculiar and characteristic ulceration 
of the mucous membranes of the nasal cavities and chambers, 
there would be no difficulty in recognizing it, and condemning 
the animal affected as most dangerous. It is found, however, 
that horses which suffer from glanders in this country, where 
the climate is especially dry, cases are very rare which exhibit 
any two of these symptoms. At the same time, cases do exist 
which do not exhibit even one of the symptoms, thus making it 
very difficult to diagnose. Animals affected in the latter way 
are fully as dangerous in transmitting the disease as those which 
show the symptoms peculiar to the disease ; they live longer, 
and are more apt to pass from one farm to another, thus coming 
in contact with more horses, and eventually producing a wider 
spread of the disease than where the typical acute form exists. 
When the disease is once detected there should be no hesitation 
