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line of conduct is indicated towards the other animals of the 
same stable ? 
Actually, the contaminated stable is declared infected^ all 
the animals that it contains are submitted to inspections by the 
sanitary service ; the owner cannot dispose of them except to 
have them killed ; he cannot work them unless they do not 
present suspicious signs, and then only under the regulations 
prescribed by the authorities ; the declaration of infection is 
raised only when two months have elapsed without the occur¬ 
rence of another case of glanders in the stable; animals that 
still present some doubtful symptoms remain under sanitary 
supervision for a year. 
It is rare that a case of glanders remains single in a stable 
containing a certain number of horses ; the rule is, that others 
take the disease in turns. But, before presenting visible symp¬ 
toms which suggest precautions against them, they may have 
spread around them the germs of the disease and have contami¬ 
nated others; it is in that manner that glanders is propagated 
and at times remains in large establishments, killing a greater or 
smaller number of animals. 
Injection of malleine, in those which among the contaminated 
are actually dangerous or may become so, operates to prevent 
the danger. Therefore it is prudent to submit to malleine all 
the stable-mates of a horse condemned for glanders : 
(i) Those which give the ordinary reaction (hyperthermy, 
oedema, prostration, etc.) shall be declared suspicious; they 
should be carefully isolated from the others, marked and sub¬ 
mitted to sanitary supervision for a year, as well as those which 
had presented symptoms which could have some relation to 
glanders ; during this sanitary supervision, injections of mal¬ 
leine shall be renewed (every two months); those which, be¬ 
sides the reaction to malleine, would present any of the clinical 
signs of glanders (indurated gland, discharge, suppurative 
lymphangitis, sarcocele, nasal or cutaneous ulceration, etc.), 
shall be considered as glanderous and destroyed ; on the con¬ 
trary, those which have failed to react to two successive injec- 
