GLANDERS AND ITS MORTALITY. 
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It is noteworthy that I passed as without symptoms of glan¬ 
ders, horses that the territorial veterinarian had condemned 
about ten days before, and he, in turn, a fortnight later, failed to 
find any lesions of glanders in a number that I had condemned. 
During my visit I daily rode behind a powerful buckskin geld¬ 
ing, which the owner assured me had been a pronounced case in 
the preceding year. I could recognize no evidence of lesion in 
the nose, the submaxillary glands, the skin nor the lungs. He 
had to all appearances made a complete recovery. 
This all happened before the days of the mallein test. Since 
the introduction of the mallein test it has become possible to 
identify glanders in slight and occult cases which would for¬ 
merly have passed undetected. It has also become possible to 
attest actual recoveries, by the persistent lack of response to the 
mallein test which had at first produced strong reaction. The 
recognition of recoveries, even in Europe, has accordingly be¬ 
come more frequent. The most noticeable papers on the sub¬ 
ject have been those of Prieur and Nocard. Prieur as the result 
of observations on man and horse notes the frequent recovery 
from skin glanders in man and horse, and the recovery of the 
horse from even lung glanders in certain cases. 
Nocard gives the results of observations on three large studs 
and on horses from different regiments. 
At the remount depot of Montoire the whole stud was tested 
and a considerable number reacted which showed ho visible 
sign of glanders. Eleven of. the horses that had failed to react 
were killed and all showed miliary glanders nodules in the 
lungs, which, however, showed no inflammatory areole. These 
Nocard held to be recovered cases. Out of 233 horses tested 
136 reacted, and of these latter 78, after remaining picketed in 
the open air for five to six months, and after repeated failure to 
react, were sent into regiments and for five years have shown 
no sign of glanders. 
In a depot of the Paris Tramways Co., out of 160 horses. 29 
reacted, three only showing the usual clinical symptoms. These 
and 12 others were killed and all showed pulmonary nodules. 
