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The author made 2 inoculations of virus of equine glanders, one 
upon a rabbit (on the ears), the other upon a goat (injection in the 
peritoneum). In both cases glanderous eruption took place upon the 
nasal mucous, evidently metastatic in origin. This may explain those 
cases to which, weeks and months of incubation were attributed, and in 
which the disease existed a long time, in a latent form, the lesions being 
deeply situated. Horses, with all appearances of health, may infect 
others through atmospheric air; and these for a long time, may present 
nothing of particular, until nasal ulcerations, cutaneous lesions and 
those of the glands would appear. These are the so-called spqn- 
taneous cases. Clinical observation confirms these experimental 
pathological facts : Bagge, out of 107 horses destroyed as affected or 
suspected of'glanders, 10 had marked lesions of the nose, 13 had lesions 
scarcely visible, 53 pulmonary nodosities and ulcerations of the respira¬ 
tory canal except the nose, 31 presented nothing. 
According to the author, it is impossible to establish a point of 
identity between glanders and tuberculous disease: inoculation always 
gave negative results, and the nodosity of glanders differs much from 
the miliary tubercle. This has a lymphoid bloodless structure; the other 
is often vascular, and is composed of lencocytes, generally with large 
cells. By inoculation glanders is easily distinguished from affections to 
which it is identified and placed on a like nature, and its specifity is 
positively established. 
Then the author speaks of the transmission of glanders to other 
animals, and especially the rabbit, sheep and the goat. The two first, 
like man, are very susceptible to it, and may spontaneously be infected 
by sojourning in stables occupied by glandered or farcinous horses It 
is not so with the goat. The dog, on the contrary, is not predisposed 
to contract the disease ; after inoculation, generally, only a local affec¬ 
tion is exhibited. In one case, Nordstrom saw a dog contract the dis¬ 
ease after eating the meat of glandered horses. In cats the disease 
shows itself in two ways. It has been also observed in wolves, in lions 
and in the mice and guinea pigs. According to Spinola, pigs are suscepti¬ 
ble to contract the disease, but, as in cattle, inoculations (Gerlach and 
Stiffen) have not produced general infection. (Annales de Bruxelles). 
COLOTOMY IN THE HORSE. 
Mr. Felizet has succeeded in extracting from the floating colon a 
calculus of the size of a child’s head, through an incision made in the 
