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Glandered animals are to be killed without delay. Animals 
suspected of glanders are to be separated and kept under the 
supervision of an approved veterinary surgeon. If the suspicious 
symptoms continue over six weeks, the animal is to be killed, or 
the expense of further supervision must be defrayed by the 
proprietor. Horses that have been in contact with glandered 
animals are confined to specified localities and are to be watched 
for tw T o months. The further prescriptions are in general the 
same as those of Germany. In these countries the government 
pays a fair indemnity to the owners of animals which fire killed 
on account of glanders; this is also the case in Italy. 
In France, the law of July 21st, 1881, in regard to the con¬ 
tagious diseases, says : 
“ Art. 8. In the case of confirmed glanders and in the case of 
farcy and anthrax, if the veterinarian appointed considers them in¬ 
curable, the animals must be killed by order of the mayor,” etc. 
The use of the two terms, glanders and farcy (morve and farcin), 
and the possibility of treatment of the latter, was very unsatis¬ 
factory to the teachers of the veterinary schools and to the 
veterinary profession in general; it, however, found its way into 
the law to become practically a dead letter, for, throughout 
France farcy is regarded as glanders and as incurable, and the 
diagnosis of either is followed by the immediate destruction of 
the animal. In France no indemnity is allowed. The laws of 
Belgium are much the same as those of France. All commerce 
of glandered animals is forbidden, and a seller can be prosecuted 
both for the sale of such an animal and for the damage which 
may ensue through contagion. 
Dr. Kleneli has clearly given the points necessary for the 
diagnosis of glanders, more or less developed. For determining 
the nature of a suspicious case, various means may lie employed. 
In Italy and in parts of France, where donkeys have very little 
value, they are inoculated, either subcutaneously or by rubbing 
the discharge on the mucous membrane of the nose. If the 
matter employed is from a case of glanders, the donkey will 
show the disease in its acute form at the end of the first week. 
In the north of France, in Belgium and elsewhere, dogs are 
