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be obtained by tracheal injection in the treatment of all diseases, 
and gives several reported cases of recovery from glanders and 
At that time the new mode of administering medicines created 
some interest in the profession, and carefully written notices and 
reviews of the book from time to time appeared in veterinary 
journals. The veterinary periodicals of Italy have since then 
published a variety of articles on the subject, relating principally 
to the two diseases mentioned, and the learned director of the 
veterinary school of Milan, Dr. Lauzillotti Buonsanti, has, in 
several numbers of the Clinica Yeterinaria , published numerous 
communications upon the curability of glanders by tracheal iodu- 
rated injections. 
The importance of the subject has naturally excited an interest 
amongst veterinarians, and many experiments have been reported, 
the majority of them having proved unsuccessful. In fact, if 
there have been recoveries, they seem to have been obtained ex¬ 
clusively by Dr. Levi, whose principal claim is that the disease is 
always curable in its first stage, or at a time when the lesions are 
recent, etc. Dr. Levi also claims in its favor that the new treat¬ 
ment is perfectly inocuous and harmless in its influence. 
In the excellent annual report of the Uoyal Superior School 
of Veterinary Medicine of Milan, the worthy director, Dr. Lan- 
zilotti Buonsanti, gives an account of a number of experiments 
conducted in the Milan School, referring to the various points 
claimed by Dr. Levi, and his conclusions are that: 1st, the con¬ 
dition and serious character of glanders are not in proportion to 
the clinical symptoms, and that a favorable prognosis of recovery 
cannot be given from them alone; 2d, that the method of trach¬ 
eal injections not only does not cure glanders, but that they acceler¬ 
ate the evolution of the symptoms; 3d, that irritating tracheal 
injections cannot be continued for a length of time without giving 
rise to a severe tracelio-bronchitis and peritracheitis of a serious 
nature. The reports terminate in saying that it is most probable 
that all the cases of so-called recovery which had been reported 
were but those of temporary improvements—“ white-washed ” 
cases, so-called—in which a new development of the disease would 
