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sey, and, being covered, remained there for some time, after 
which she was returned to her owner in apparent perfect health. 
She had a little cold , the remains of a hind of distemper which 
had run th rough the horses of the breeding farm. She discharg¬ 
ed some from the left nostril; bnt beyond that was in excellent 
condition. In due time she dropped a horse colt, which, from 
general appearances, promised to become worthy of his parents 
among the records of trotting horses. This was towards the 
beginning of May, 1879. 
About the 16th of May I was requested to visit New Jersey, 
some sixty miles from New York, to examine the horses of a 
large printing works, where glanders was supposed to prevail to 
some extent, and while there was also asked to visit all the horses 
belonging to Mr. W-, a short distance off, and principally the 
mare in question. 
I found the mare by herself, with her colt, a well formed 
and developed little fellow, a few days old. The mare was 
round, fat and smooth. She felt well and ate well, and seemed 
free from disease with the exception of a little discharge, and a 
slight swelling about the maxillary space. The discharge was 
not very abundant—less than it had been, I was told—but thick, 
sticky, and adherent to the nostril, which w T as more or less dirty 
from it. The gland was but slightly painful, somewhat well 
defined, and adherent to the bone. The mucous membrane was 
rosy, not granular to the touch, but of rather a suspicious hue to¬ 
wards the upper part of the nostril on the right side. Her history 
was given as above reported; she never had been around the horses 
of the printing works; had never been ill nor shown signs of 
sickness until since she came back from being served by the 
stallion. 
But a short time before this I had had the opportunity to see 
glanders under all its forms, in several of the horse-car stables of 
New York, and had I at that time seen an animal in the same 
condition as this mare, I would have had no hesitancy in con¬ 
demning her; but, with her history and condition, the value of 
the animal, the presence of the colt in his robust and healthy 
state of development, I hesitated and put her down on my note- 
