GLANDERS AND ITS SUPPRESSION. 
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ORIGI NAL ART ICLES. 
GLANDERS AND ITS SUPPRESSION. 
EXPERIMENTS WITH MALLEIN. 
By Dr. J. M. Wright. 
Professor of Pathology and Contagious Diseases, McKillip Veterina-y College of 
Chicago,, and Assistant State Veterinarian of Illinois. 
An Address delivered before the Inter-State Association of Live Stock Sanitary Boards, 
at Omaha, Nebraska, October il, 1898. 
Glanders is one of the oldest diseases on record to which 
the equine race is heir. We find descriptions of it given over 
two thousand three hundred years ago. While it is one of the 
oldest diseases, it is the most loathsome, contagious and dreaded 
known to generations past and present. It is essentially a 
disease of the equine race, but by inoculation can be trans¬ 
mitted to other animals. For example, guinea-pigs, field mice 
and even men. Once introduced into a province, state or 
country, it has remained, notwithstanding the efforts of the 
ablest men of the age. It exists to-day in every part of the 
world inhabited by the horse, mule or ass. It causes greater 
destruction in warm countries than in cold, even with the same 
management and care of the animals. All countries in all ages, 
past and present, have made desperate efforts to rid their do¬ 
mains of the scourge. There have been repeated attempts from 
the beginning down to the present time to cure animals suffer¬ 
ing from the malady by good management and the application 
of medicines. The French, at the beginning of the present 
century, came to the conclusion that it was not contagious and 
repealed all police sanitary laws and attempted to stamp it out 
by the use of medicine. Note what followed: in less than 
twenty-five years there was a most deplorable condition of 
affairs in every part of the French Republic. The percentage 
of mortality increased from a minimum to a high rate per cent. 
The destruction of property and the loss of human life became 
so great that before many years had passed they established 
