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which could be kept well apart from others. Four were affected 
with skin and intermuscular glanders, including several very 
large abscesses with glairy contents. Here again the owner 
could not reconcile himself to the killing of the animals, and 
they were subjected to a lengthy and, finally successful treat¬ 
ment. For a number of years they have been to all appearances 
Another case was the horse of a lady physician which was 
accustomed to use the same manger as did the horses of the 
brother-in-law, several of which were killed as cases of confirmed 
glanders. This case had but one small nasal ulcer visible and 
s ight nodular enlarginent of a submaxillary lymph gland. It 
was strictly secluded with the intention of having it destroyed 
lit a week later I conld find neither ulcer nor glandular swelling '• 
the horse had apparently recovered and remained so. As serving 
to fnrther identify the disease, it may be stated that one of the 
group of condemned horses was smuggled off into another countv 
where I found and killed him months afterwards suffering from’ 
unequivocal chronic glanders. 
My most interesting experience, however, was on a large 
horse-breeding ranch on the elevated plains of Wyoming. This 
stud had been for years losing horses from a disease which the 
territorial veterinarian found it difficnlt to diagnose. It showed 
t e symptoms of glanders, but so large a proportion recovered 
that he was not prepared to discard his cherished education and 
belief and call it by that name. A short time before my visit 
one of the cowboys died of a disease which was varionsly diag- 
nosed as black smallpox, malignant measles, and rotheln, but 
which from the symptoms was undoubtedly acute cutaneous 
glanders. 
On this ranch I examined 200 horses corailed because of 
suspicion, and found over 50 head snffering from unmistakable 
glanders. Several mules had just died and the lesions found in 
nose and Inngs were of the most pronounced and aggravated 
character. I still preserve specimens obtained from these ani¬ 
mals showing the most characteristic and advanced lesions. 
