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be seriously detrimental. While for most places it will be at long 
intervals only and in special conditions that the resulting disease 
will arise to the dignity of an epizootic or epidemic and demand 
executive interference, yet there are few maladies mentioned 
above that may not and do not in particular circumstances attain 
to such dimensions, and a national board of health, charged witli 
the supervision of the sanitary condition of animals as well as 
men, must be prepared to meet and successfully deal with any 
one of the above affections to which the human being is subject. 
Similarly, must an organization, formed to deal with the plagues 
peculiar to animals, be prepared to deal with any one of those 
affections when it attains to dangerous proportions. 
GLANDERS AND FARCY. 
This affection, which so remorselessly ravaged the cavalry regi¬ 
ments and mule trains during the recent American war, was, at 
the return of peace, scattered widely over the continent. In 
country districts we continually see it cropping out, and whole 
studs falling victims to its ravages, while in city car-stables hun¬ 
dreds are not unfrequently slaughtered to arrest the progress of 
the scourge. 
The subjects of the slight and chronic attacks are frequently 
taken to a distance and sold as sound animals to unsuspecting 
purchasers, whose health and lives are thus too often sacrificed to 
the cupidity of an unscrupulous vender; for this terrible malady 
is as painful, loathsome, and fatal to the human system as to the 
equine, and every veterinarian of extensive practice can adduce 
instances in which men have perished miserably from equine in¬ 
fection. 
Were it only for the losses inflicted by this scourge, it would 
demand the prompt destruction and safe disposal of every infected 
animal. 
At the beginning of the present century, horses suffering from 
chronic glanders were habitually kept and worked in Great Britain, 
and the losses throughout the island were enormous. Now, where 
it is illegal to keep a glandered horse, these have been reduced to 
a very limited number. In the English’ army, where the presen¬ 
tation of symptoms equivocating glanders entails the prompt 
