THREE CONSECUTIVE RECOVERIES FROM CxLANDERS. 
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illary lymphatic glands, leading the owner to conclude from his 
former experience that she was seriously glandered and must 
soon snccnmb, causing him to determine to destroy her without 
official inspection, bnt delaying action ; the mare being isolated, 
she improved, regaining flesh and vigor nntil in March, 1894, 
she showed no constitutional disturbance, bnt a personal inspec¬ 
tion made revealed unmistakable evidence of glanders in the 
characteristic enlarged, nodular, painful and adherent snbmaxil- 
lary lymphatic glands, the glutinous discharge from the nostrils 
and the characteristic erodent ulcers upon the nasal partition. 
She continued to improve nntil on July 3, 1894, when she had 
apparently recovered except slight nodular swelling of the snb- 
maxillary lymphatic glands, at which time a test with mallein 
was undertaken, with the results as recorded in the table on 
page 104, Bill. 4. At the same time her mate. No. 7, and another 
mare. No. 8, both of which were apparently sound and believed 
to be so, were selected as “ control ” animals to act as a check 
upon the test on No. 6. The test revealed that No. 7 was, like 
No. 6, glandered, and this opinion was further demonstrated by 
succeeding mallein tests, while No. 8 withstood this and subse¬ 
quent tests perfectly. Nos. 6 and 7 were safely isolated and kept 
for observation. 
In the meantime ]\Ir. Decker and his father had a consider¬ 
able number of unbroken horses in a band some miles distant, 
bnt which had, at an earlier date, been in contact with those killed 
in Dec., 1894 as well as Nos. 6 and 7 and some other horses 
killed on the farm for glanders, prior to my connection with the 
station ; and some time in the fall of 1894 a deputy State Veter¬ 
inarian killed two animals in this band on account of glanders, 
after which the remainder was brought back into the vallev and 
wintered on the farm, when in the spring of 1895 a three-year-old 
developed the characteristic symptoms of glanders in mild 
form, and was promptly isolated from the healthy and placed in 
the enclosure with Nos. 6 and 7. We will designate this patient 
No. 9. 
The three affected animals were allowed the liberty of a 
