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solution, containing some formaldehyde, help to allay the 
swellings. For heavy draft horses the initial dose may safely 
be io grs., as these animals are not very susceptible to silver in 
any form, and collargolum of all others is the least toxic. 
In conclusion, I would say that in the case of a horse, a 
brown gelding aged six years, weight about 1600 pounds, was 
suspected of glanders, and on being treated with mallein, ex¬ 
hibited a positive reaction. For experiment, I began treatment 
on him with three intravenous injections of collargolum of 10 
grs. each, daily ; at the fourth day, there was no longer any 
nasal discharge and ail symptoms appeared diminished. The 
treatment was then continued, twice daily for a week, then 
once daily for two weeks, at the end of which time there was 
nothing left to show that the animal had ever been infected, 
excepting the slight thickening of the off hind leg and the 
scars of the healed ulcers. Temperature returned to the normal 
on the fourteenth day. The animal was turned out to pasture, 
while given a tonic twice daily, and one month later was put to 
work. At last accounts he was still working, and appeared in 
excellent health and spirits, although the hind leg remained 
somewhat thickened. This horse died of colic during the early 
part of August, without an opportunity to hold a post-mortem. 
This is the only case of glanders I have ever had the opportu¬ 
nity to treat medicinally, and T am willing to undertake an¬ 
other if the circumstances are favorable. 
THE RELATION OF VETERINARY MEDICINE TO THE 
PUBLIC HEALTH. 
By William Herbert Lowe, D. V. S., Paterson, N. J. 
(,Former United States Veterinary Officer of the Port of New York.) 
A Paper read before the American Veterinary Medical Association at Detroit, Mich., 
September 5, 1900. 
I think it is a safe statement to make that people recognize 
and appreciate much quicker and in a fuller sense what veteri¬ 
nary medicine does for their pet animals and for themselves, in 
