tREATMENT OE GLANDERS AND FARCY. 
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ployed as veterinary surgeon by an English company, who were 
then constructing railroads in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, 
Europe, and had the opportunity of keeping a central hospital for 
the diseased and disabled horses. I found there a good many 
horses affected with glanders and farcy, and was allowed to keep 
and subject them to treatment. 
All the horses, numbering 227, had their numbers branded on 
the left fore-foot, like the cavalry horses in France. A special 
journal was kept, wherein I marked the days when a patient 
entered and left the hospital, also the nature of the disease, its 
treatment and final issue. Besides this journal, l had taken a 
good many notes, written on loose paper, of which I can now, 
very unfortunately, find only a few. Thus I was enabled to 
make a brief resume of all the cases of glanders that came under 
my observation, but can only satisfy the readers of the .Review 
with such of the notes as I have on hand. 
In publishing these notes I simply intend to make known the 
facts of my private clinique, with a view to contribute my little 
share to the history of that terrible disease called glanders, and 
cannot but express the great regret I feel in being unable to give 
a complete history of all the cases mentioned in the journal. I 
will give a faithful copy of my record-book without any correc¬ 
tion or comment. This last 1 will leave to more competent per¬ 
sons. Before beginning this enumeration I wish to say a few 
words about the presumptive causes of glanders amongst our 
horses; the police laws as enforced in Europe concerning the 
contagions diseases; the symptoms of glanders, and the treat¬ 
ment I bad used to cure them. 
The work of these horses had been one of great hardship and 
permanent exposure to the inclemencies of the weather. They 
had to be outside all day, feeding over dinner under a tree, 
unprotected from the wind and rain, and very often during 
working hours obliged to stand still every now and then, while 
rain and wind were coming right down upon them, chilling their 
body all through. As the railway was being built through a 
valley, crossing a creek very often, the horses were obliged to 
wade through the water at some places three feet deep. There 
were, for one instance out of many, about twenty horses carry- 
