M. L. TR ASHOT. 
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as far as the inguinal ganglions, which became indurated and re¬ 
mained in that condition for some time without suppurating. 
Several times I believed myself in the necessity of condemning 
him. Two reasons stopped me : first, the pus given by the pseudo 
chancres was of good nature / and second, the animal gave me a 
rare opportunity to gather a long and very interesting observation 
upon the primitive development of glanders. I had the certainty, 
as perfect as possible, that he had never been in contact with a 
glandered horse. After four weeks of quarantine in a box-stall, 
where he remained without treatment, all his wounds had 
cicatrized. But he had lost much flesh, his hairs were dull and 
dry, and there remained quite a large swelling of the leg, an in¬ 
durated cord at the internal face, up to the thigh—even a small 
inguinal gland and a lameness, which, after having been well 
marked at the time of eruption, had diminished, but yet existed 
without improvement. I became more than ever inclined to look 
at him as a case of spontaneous glanders. 
Even then he was not destroyed. He was sent to a farm, 
turned out daily, ate grass at discretion, and received oats eveiy 
day. Under the influence of this regime he recovered entirely and 
was soon able to resume his work. 
What had taken place ? I believe I begin to know it, I did not 
think, of course, any more about spontaneous development of 
glanders. After careful consideration, I believe that he had had, 
following the eruption of gourme, an adhesive lymphangitis, like a 
phlebitis of the same kind. By the formation of an adherent clot 
in one of the large lymphatics, the resorption of the lymph had 
stopped, or at least diminished in the whole leg, causing then a 
swelling and a sensibility, perhaps only from mechanical interfer¬ 
ence. Then, by degrees, surrounding small vessels had sufficiently 
dilated, the resorption had again started, as in the normal state, and 
the swelling had disappeared, leaving only the indurated lymphatic 
cord, rounded, somewhat smaller, and well defined under the skin. 
This, like those remaining after adhesive closing of a vein, was 
longer in being absorbed. Six months later it was still felt un¬ 
der the skin. Still, the animal had resumed his work and was in 
excellent health. Eight months later everything had disappeared. 
