American Veterinary Review. 
SEPTEMBER, 1897. 
EDITORIAL. 
GLANDERS—ITS CONTAGION—ITS CURABILITY— 
MALLEINE. 
IS GLANDERS COMMUNICABLE THROUGH THE DIGESTIVE 
APPARATUS?—IS GLANDERS CURABLE? 
These are two important questions, upon which much has 
already been written. A new phase has been opened lately. 
Prof. Nocard, the celebrated professor of the Alfort School, has 
worked out the two problems quietly, and a few days ago gave 
positive evidences of his previous declarations before the mem¬ 
bers of the commission hippique of the War Department and a 
large number of veterinarians (civil and military), with whom 
I had the pleasure of following Prof. Nocard in his demon¬ 
strations, which concluded in answering the two questions in 
the affirmative. 
To carry on the experiments twelve horses were placed at 
his service at Alfort by the Secretary of War. These horses, in 
fair condition, were left out in 4 he fields secured to a post with 
ropes^ permitting of reaso 7 iable libejdy ; they ivere kept exposed 
to all kinds of weather ; zvere well fed^ but^ in the free opezi air ; 
they were first submitted to the malleine test, to ascertain their 
thorough freedom from any glanderous infection. 
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On November 30th all those horses drank water out of a pail 
containing a certain well-measured quantity of culture of glan¬ 
ders. A few days afterwards, varying from four to eight days, 
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