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J• O. ME1KR, JR. 
The State of Ohio has a law prohibiting the sale of animals 
so diseased. It makes the owner of such an animal liable for all 
damages that might arise by the diseased animal coming in con¬ 
tact with the healthy horses. This is the extent of the law, but 
it does not prevent the spread of the disease. As long as the 
law does not make it a criminal offense for a man to own a glan- 
dered horse, and does not give the veterinarian power to destroy 
the diseased animal, and at the same time afford him the neces¬ 
sary protection, it will be impossible to arrest its progress. 
During the year, the following cases of glanders have come 
under my observation : 
1884. September, 1; October, 2. 
1885. February, 2; May, 3; June, 1 ; July, 8—(5 Shetland 
ponies, 2 colts, 1 mule ;) August, 9—(8 in one stable, 1 in another.) 
With the exception of three, all of these cases were destroyed. 
I have examined a number of suspicious cases, and look for¬ 
ward to an important outbreak sooner or later. 1 have heard of 
numerous cases of glanders about the State, and would recom¬ 
mend strict measures to prevent its spread. 
Anthrax has come under my observation but once during the 
past year, and that was last October. The disease made its ap¬ 
pearance on a place formerly occupied by a cattle dealer. Twelve 
head of cattle out of twenty, and three horses, died of the dis¬ 
ease. 
Influenza has played an important role during the spring 
months of 1885. Important from the fact that the death rate 
was greater than any other year. I should judge it was about 15 
per cent., and the convalescent cases made a slow recovery. The 
fatal cases usually died of a bowel complication, attended by 
diarrhoea, followed by paralysis of the bowels, preventing the 
evacuation of their contents. This state usually set in after the 
acute febrile state had subsided. If the eyes had been closed 
and weeping, they now assume a dry and staring appearance. 
Debility is extreme ; appetite is absolutely suspended ; they drink 
water sparingly ; restlessness prevails ; pulse from 60-100 per 
minute; temperature, which at the outset was high, 105°-106°, 
