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and slightly tinged with blood; breathing becoming more rapid 
and labored, and showing rapid congestion of the right lung. 
Respiration cannot be performed except through the tube. Mu¬ 
cous membrane shows signs of ulcerating. On the fourth the 
mucous membrane on both sides was covered with ulcers, and the 
patient rapidly approaching dissolution. The end was anticipated 
by destroying the case at once. No post-mortem examination was 
made. 
An examination of all the public auimals at the depot was 
now made to determine whether any other cases were present. 
Four mules were found with suspicious looking abrasions of the 
nasal mucous membrane ; but a close observation in quarantine 
for two weeks failed to confirm the supposition that they might 
be glandered, consequently they were returned to duty. 
These are all the precautions that were taken to prevent a fur¬ 
ther spread of the disease, or to detect the development of other 
cases, for the only reason that the depot quartermaster determined 
that a veterinary surgeon’s services w T ere no longer necessary at 
the depot. 
It is unnecessary to inform the profession that such precau¬ 
tions, or rather want of precautions, are not effectual safeguards 
against the spread of diseases so contagious as is glanders, but it 
may interest others. The circumstances attending the animals, 
with which the case above reported had daily intercourse up to 
the 1st of May, were undoubtedly such as would afford the great¬ 
est facility for the infection of others. These mules, about one 
hundred in number, were at the time being stabled in a large 
shed, and daily turned into a small corral for exercise. Not 
only were they brought in intimate contact with each other while 
taking this exercise, but worse still, they were turned into the 
shed in the evening and fastened indiscriminately to the feed 
troughs, where they stood in contact with their neighbors on either 
side and noses touching in front. All these animals, during the 
succeeding few weeks, were sent to different posts in the depart¬ 
ment, where, if they were infected, they found new fields for 
doing mischief. That any further losses from this outbreak oc¬ 
curred I have no positive knowledge, but how easy it would have 
