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NEWS ARD SUNDRIES. 
M. W. Dunham, of Wayne, Ill., having imported and bred nearly 
1,000, and has now on hand some 400.— Country Gcyitleman. 
Glanders in the Human Subject.— In a recent number of 
the St. Petersb. Med. Wochenschrift , Dr. Zdekauer describes a 
case where the clinical symptoms of glanders were observed, 
although no distinct history of infection could be obtained. A 
lady, aged 46, and in very good health, was attacked at the begin¬ 
ning of January, with swelling of several large joints, and high 
fever. At the end of three weeks, the temperature continued 
over 104°, with no eruption, slight enlargement of the spleen, 
and very feeble pulse. Dr. Zdekauer diagnosed u latent blood- 
poisoning complicated by rheumatic polyarthritis.” On January 
26th, the face became cedematous, with pustules as large as a 
bean ; there was great lividity of the lower eyelids, no glandular 
swellings, and a typhoid condition. On the next day, the face 
was enormously swollen, and large grayish swellings, with dilated 
lymphatic vessels between them, covered the left lids, the nose, 
and the mouth. Several pustules, of the size of cherries, with 
livid bases, were found on the arm ; the patient became comatose, 
and died in the evening.— The Medical Gazette. 
A Strange Disease is reported as affecting cattle in Alabama, 
North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania 
and New York. This disease, from all accounts, is Texas fever. 
It is well known to the profession. It is rapidly fatal and so far 
treatment seems ineffectual. There is some consolation in the 
fact that the disease is not communicable from one northern ani¬ 
mal to another, and also that it can never become a permanent 
pest, since a sharp frost destroys the germs of the disease. 
The Fourth International Congress of Hygiene, which is 
to meet at Geneva, September 4th to 9th next, will discuss the 
following topics : “ State and International Hygiene,” “ Prophy¬ 
laxis of Epidemic Diseases and Sanitary Police,” “ Social and 
Medical Statistics,” “ Delation of Hygiene to Chemistry, Physics, 
and Mechanics,” “ Hygiene of Children,” “ School Hygiene,” 
“ Private and Public and Veterinary Hygiene.”— Medical Record. 
