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A CASE OF LATENT GLANDERS, WITH LESIONS OF THE GENITAL 
ORGANS. 
By Prof. Colin, of Alfort. 
(From the Bulletin de'l'Academie de Medicine de Paris) 
The subject was a mare about 15 years old, weak and much worn 
out. She had no apparent disease of the maxillary glands, no nasal 
discharge, no swelling of the legs, no cutaneous humors, no ulcerations; 
in fact, none of the symptoms of glanders or farcy. Still, she presented 
lesions in the lungs, in the liver, in the larynx and trachea, in the genital 
organs and in the blood. The lesions are described as follows : 
The lung is enormous, and partly adherent to the right costal walls 
by pleuretic membranes. Its surface is covered with rosy, yellow, gray 
and brown spots. These are the largest, and give the organ the appear¬ 
ance it presents in old pneumonia, where different forms of induration 
and purulent or caseous colle:tions are found ; but what gives the lung 
the aspect of glanderous tissue is the presence of grayish nodules with 
citrine serous infiltration. Cuts made through its texture show large 
indurated masses, with nuclei of recent limited pneumonia and tubercles, 
some of which are gray and hard, others soft and purulent in the centre. 
In some points these are of the size of a hen’s egg, are soft, and without 
communication with the bronchia. These lesions are of different ages. 
The more recent are in the anterior lobes and middle part of the lungs. 
There is no doubt in their appearance with those of a glanderous lung. 
In the trachea and larynx, the eruption is not so well marked, and 
is more recent. The pustules of the trachea are small, not well promi¬ 
nent, and surrounded by a narrow circle. None are ulcerated. The 
larynx has two large flat pustules, with a wide red ring round, on 
each side of the epiglottis. Many confluent young pustules cover the 
vocal cords. No ulceration, properly so called, in any part. These 
lesions belong to the second age of glanders. 
The larynx is the seat of a peculiar lesion, not commonly met with 
in glanders. The left half of the arythenoideus muscle, and the mus¬ 
cular fibres of the left vocal cord, are discolored and atrophied. The 
left recurrent nerve is in way of degeneration due to the pressure made 
upon it and the pneumogastic of the same side by the bronchial gang¬ 
lions. These are much more hypertrophied than in ordinary glanders, 
and have very large anterior prolongations surrounding the cross of the 
