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muscles. The diffuse form has been found more especially in 
the flexors of the upper extremities , while the gummy tumors 
occur in the glutens, trapezius, sterno—cleido—mastoidens, etc. 
(Baumler, ibid , p. 179.) 
3^ ^ ei ring more minutely to the pathology of these affec¬ 
tions, it will be seen that the bones, special and otherwise, fall a 
prey equally to the two poisons, to wit: the bones of the skull, 
palate, vomer and nasal; the larynx, pharynx and trachea; eye, 
urinary organs and testicles; lungs, soft palate and tonsils; 
mouth, fauces and mucous membranes; ligaments, cartilages and 
joints ; liver, spleen and nervous system ; muscles, skin and lym¬ 
phatic glands; and many other points of comparison too tedious 
to enter into here. 
If the reader be not already convinced of the striking analogy 
between these two diseases, it would be a waste of time to en¬ 
deavor to make this clearer when, after all, experiment, and not 
mere fancy, will determine the value of our views. 
In regard to the so-called volatile nature of that epidemic, so 
strongly insisted upon by contemporary writers, and which we 
are not unconditionally inclined to dispute, the following may 
not be amiss: “Under the second class of modes of infection,” 
continues Bollinger, “ occurring without known local inoculation, 
may be observed the case of individuals who groom and have the 
care of glandered horses, and who sleep in a stall with the dis¬ 
eased animals, without in any way coming in contact with them, 
or who become infected by sleeping on straw upon which, shortly 
before, glandered horses have been standing.” 
Observed how easily, in this manner, glanders may be con¬ 
tracted without known local inoculation with diseased products, 
it will not be at all wondered at that soldiers (let us imagine) in 
a state of famine and degradation, compelled, as they are, to mess 
and sleep together, could impart to one another a disease like 
this, with the most frightful and alarming rapidity, thus probably 
giving rise to the belief that the epidemic could be communicated 
alone by the air. Even at this date it is not altogether a settled 
point that this cannot be done; most writers admit its possibili¬ 
ty, but not its probability. Now, if glanders of the horse has 
