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and Dr. Trumbower seems to confirm this by the following quo 
tation : “In a number of the attacks, perhaps about two-thirds, of 
the total number of mares with foal affected by this disease, it 
affected the mucous lining of the uterus, causing abortion, the 
animal then usually making a rapid recovery.” 
Glanders and Farcy. —This disease or these forms of disease 
are next most frequently mentioned in the reports. Massachusetts, 
New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Illinois, Missouri, and 
even away west to Wyoming Territory, Kansas down to Ala¬ 
bama. As I have already said, it is considered by some as the 
consequence of the attack of influenza. Dr. Michener, of Penn¬ 
sylvania, reports one case where, after eight months of treatment 
by various practitioners, he had at last the satisfaction to have the 
horse destroyed. 
Anthrax. —The various forms of anthrax seem to be the next 
one on the list. Indeed, we have received information that many 
cases of anthrax proper have been observed in Dakota Territory, 
Wyoming Territory, Illinois, Connecticut and Missouri, while 
from Kansas and Wyoming Territory, the news has reached us 
of the presence of black leg. 
In speaking of anthrax proper, Dr. Agersborg says, “ The 
causes of anthrax seems to be only by infection, although in 
some cases it has been impossible to ascertain even this. The 
apoplectic form is the most common here amongst cattle, horses 
and swine. 
Dr. Trumbower says that it has been more frequent and 
severe since the floods and high water of the spring of 1881 
than previous to that time, and Dr. Hopkins writes “ that an¬ 
thrax is wide spread over this territory; that sphenix apoplexy 
and black leg are the most common forms, mostly in young ani¬ 
mals, and due to the luxuriant feed, lack of exercise and also to 
the fact as to animals dying of this disease , that their putrefying 
carcasses are left on the plains and in the water courses. This,” 
continues Dr. Hopkins, “ is one of the causes of the spread of 
the disease, and I have made a strong appeal for the burying or 
burning of the carcasses.” 
The treatment followed is peculiar in Wyoming Territory, 
