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W. L. WILLIAMS. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
THREE CONSECUTIVE RECOVERIES FROM 
GLANDERS. 
By W. L. Williams, Prof, of Surgery, New York State Veterinary College, 
In Bulletin No. 4 of the Montana Agricultural Experiment 
Station, which was largely reprinted in the American Veter¬ 
inary Review, Vol. XIX, p. 6 , we had occasion to note the 
possibility of recovery from glanders, either with or without 
treatment, and although such a possibility is in full accord with 
the veterinary science of to-day, the popular mind is still 
strongly imbued with the belief that this malady is uniformly 
and more or less rapidly fatal. Bearing upon this phase of the 
disease it is interesting to note the results of observations and ^ 
experiments carried out on three glandered horses, the property 
of Mr. Moses Decker, Bozeman, Mont. 
Two of these animals are noted in Bnl. No. 4, as Nos. 6 and 
7, in table on page io4) but without special detail, that presented 
being unfortunately vitiated by typographical errors on page 
105, where in 4th line from top ‘‘No. 5 should read “ No. 6 
and in 6th line, same page, “No. 5” should read “No. 7.” 
These two animals. Nos. 6 and 7? were a pair of well-bred, light 
road mares, used almost exclusively for light road work and 
were constantly together. 
In Dec., 1893, I inspected two horses on Mr. Decker’s prem¬ 
ises which had been kept with Nos. 6 and 7 And which were 
clearly affected with glanders, the septum nasi of one of these 
being shown in Fig. VII, Bnl. 4. 
On this trip to inspect the above glandered horses. Nos. 6 and 
7 were used for driving, and it was noted that No. 7 appeared 
somewhat out of health, with harsh, rough coat, but nothing' 
definite could be detected. About a month later, however, she 
developed all the symptoms of acute, nasal glanders, discharging 
freely from both nostrils with the usual tumefaction of snbmax- 
