American Veterinary Review, 
FEBRUARY, 1880. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
LATENT GLANDERS, 
By Prof. A. Liautard, M.D.,V.S. 
The question of contagious diseases amongst animals is one to 
which every sanitarian must pay more or less attention, and the 
various ways by which these affections are transmitted are no less 
important and interesting than the many different forms under 
which the pathological conditions may manifest themselves. 
When disease exhibits itself upon an animal with an eruption 
of all the symptoms which every one knows, even if he may be 
unable to distinguish and recognize them, the task becomes quite 
simple. But when, on the contrary, the disease effects an insidi¬ 
ous march ; when its manifestations are slow to appear ; when even 
with a rotten organism, an animal seems to enjoy perfect health, 
as shown by his external appearance, the condition of his skin, 
his good appetite, his ability to work, and the immunity enjoyed by 
other animals with which he may have been in contact; then, 
how serious and more dangerous that disease becomes—how much 
