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cases, is, no doubt, to be attributed to the dryness of the at¬ 
mosphere, particularly when the wind is from the south. Catarrh 
in the human family exhibits the same peculiarity there, as does 
also the discharge from wounds. The climate of New Mexico is 
similar. 
Another condition to be remarked was the infrequency of 
indurated submaxillary glands. How to account for this pecu¬ 
liarity I do not know, unless it also is to be attributed to climatic 
influences. The climate of New Mexico, some parts of Texas 
and the Indian Territory, according to the opinions of a number 
of physicians, offers a considerable immunity to the development 
of tubercle. Is not this the probable cause for the infrequency 
of glanderous deposits in the glands and lungs of infected ani¬ 
mals in this climate ? 
Lastly, the glanderous deposits which take place in the mucous 
membrane of the nose, do not so readily degenerate, and break 
down from ulcers, as is seen in other climates. It is only in 
the old cases, as a rule, that ulceration of the nodules is seen. 
Where so many of the characteristic symptoms of glanders 
were absent, skepticism as to the correctness of the diagnosis nat¬ 
urally existed, and this was not removed until post-mortem exam¬ 
ination was made of cases that, to the laity, seeemed entirely free 
from disease. 
Troop F, 9th Cavalry, was most seriously infected. With 
a strength of sixty-three horses, thirty were destroyed during the 
five weeks they were under my observation. That these horses 
had been infected a long time there can be no doubt, for in some 
cases the septum nasi was nearly ulcerated through and almost 
the entire surface covered over with ulcers and nodules. If I 
am not misinformed, no veterinary surgeon had served with the 
troop for quite a time, but one of the veterinary surgeons of the 
regiment had seen them in September or October last and, no 
doubt, had the opportunity to inspect them. If the inspection 
was made, the disease was certainly either oveilooked or the evi¬ 
dences misinterpreted. If the inspections were not made they 
should have been. To send horses from post to post , where they 
will come in contact with numbers of other animals , without first 
