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EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS 
AN INTERESTING CASE OF LATENT GLANDERS. 
By Mr. A. Barrier. 
This is a case in which the disease had not been detected for 
a period of about twenty-two months. The subject an Anglo- 
Norman mare, seven years old. She was in 1878 in a regiment 
of cavalry where glanders existed. Six months later she was sold, 
and presented then nothing abnormal but a slight cough. This 
lasted for twenty-two months, when she was treated for a capped 
hock of the left leg, which resisted all forms of treatment for six¬ 
teen days. At that time she showed all the signs of health. The 
capped hock was punctured with a red hot wire, with the intro¬ 
duction of a seton. Some iodine injections were made m the sac 
and a coat of plaster of paris mixed with sulphate of iron and 
water applied on the outside. Several days after, the tumor had 
disappeared. On the 16th of January she refused her food, and 
became feverish. Fearing an attack of pneumonia, she was treated 
accordingly, but without any change in her condition. Ten days 
later, a tumor of the size of a hen's egg, hard, painful and 
slightly oedematous, appeared in the left jugular groove. Four 
days later, the left fore fetlock had a small circular wound, of 
bad aspect, greyish, bleeding and covered with a scab which was 
adherent to the hairs. Close observation revealed another little 
sore on the right flank. The following day a second sore appeal¬ 
ed on the left fore leg. A dose of aloes hastened the development 
of the disease, and the symptoms following its effects were such 
that no more doubt could exist as to the nature qf the disease, and 
the animal was destroyed. 
The skin then showed the lesions met with in farcy. The 
lymphatic glands were swollen, infiltrated and in some eases 
purulent. In the nasal cavities no ulcerations were found on the 
mucous membrane, but the inferior maxillary sinus was filled with 
pus and its mucous membrane thickened and congested. In the 
larynx and trachea the mucous membrane was thickened and 
infiltrated. In the thorax the lungs irregularly bosselated by 
mucous tumors, hard, yellowish and of various sizes, more abun¬ 
dant on the dorsal border, where they were largest. They were not 
