650 
J. M. WRIGHT. 
I 
new police sanitary laws and enforced them with greater vigi- 
lance than ever before, ^his had the desired effect of lessening 
the percentage of mortality. 
I personally know of numerous instances where effort has 
been made to effect cures by aid of therapeutical agents in this 
country : one instance where barns were secured outside the 
city and many glandered patients taken for treatment. Such 
efforts were ineffectual, as they never returned a single horse 
cured. Horses had been treated in another barn for two years 
until, as a State officer, I discovered them and what was going 
on. I took possession of the premises. The owner had never 
owned more than four horses at any one time, but during the 
period that they were treated he lost eleven diseased with 
glanders. When I took possession of the place, I found three 
horses in the barn ; one a large sorrel horse so badly diseased 
with farcy and glanders that he could scarcely walk ; one large 
bay horse almost as badly diseased, and one gray horse, which 
he had owned for years, was in good condition and at first 
sight would be regarded as in a perfect state of health. Upon 
closer examination he was found to have glanders in the chronic 
form. It is needless to say that I destroyed them all. I could 
relate many similar instances just as provoking as the above, but 
time will not permit. 
Attempts have been made in the AVest to effect cures by 
turning glandered horses out on the ranges. If this were done 
in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Dakota, when the weather 
is fine, in the summer months, the animals would gain in flesh 
and many of the symptoms would become modified or disap¬ 
pear, but when feed becomes scanty in the fall and cold rains, 
sleet and snow, and blizzards with their chilly blasts come, the 
disease would assume the acute form and the animals would die 
in great numbers. Some of the stronger ones would, perhaps, 
live through the winter and with the return of spring, its fine 
weather, and plenty of food, they would improve and continue 
in the chronic form, spreading the seeds of contagion. 
Nasal discharges and farcy are only manifestations of gener- 
