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A. A. HOLCOMBE. 
In my letter asking for information, I stated the object to be 
to publish the statistics obtained for the benefit of the profession 
and the Government. The results of my search for knowledge 
on the subject were not of a very satisfactory character. Some 
of the veterinary surgeons did not consider the matter worthy of 
attention; others have kept no record of cases ! while others 
have not furnished the information promised. So much for the 
assistance and statistics obtained from the Army Veterinary De¬ 
partment. 
Turning to my book containing a record of the cases which 
have occurred here under my observation, I find that the first 
case of glanders came to the hospital on the 1st day of May, lbbl, 
to be treated for abscess of the right wall of the chest. I believe 
the case is interesting enough to give m detail. 
The subject was a young pack-mule that had been sent here 
for recuperation from one of the posts in Colorado, about the be¬ 
ginning of the year. Like the otheis sent here for that pin pose, 
he was very thin in flesh when he arrived. Unlike most others, he 
did not improve much in condition, yet presented no evidences of 
disease. He first entered the hospital on the 23d of April for a 
contused wound of the right knee. A small abscess formed, was 
opened and readily healed, so that he was discharged on the 29th. 
Two days after he was returned to the hospital with an abscess 
forming on the wall of the right chest, just below the elbow. 
Breathing somewhat hurried. An examination was made the 
next morning, May 2d, and the following entry made : “ Abscess 
opened; contained healthy pus; oedematous swelling on the 
nose between the alw , resembling purpura hsemorrhagica. Mu¬ 
cous membrane of the nose dark-colored and covered with a thick 
mucus. No petechise.” Towards night the swelling of the mu¬ 
cous membrane of the nasal cavities had become so great as to 
threaten suffocation, so the trachea was opened, and the trach¬ 
eotomy tube was inserted. Inspiration now became compara¬ 
tively easy. 
On the 3d the right submaxillary gland was found swollen, 
hot, aud painful to the touch; temperature 101°, the same as 
on the 1st and 2d. Discharge from the nose increasing, 
