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EDITORIAL. 
action of a contagion, tlie real nature of which, at present, escapes 
our attention. 
EDITORIAL. 
GLANDERS. 
In our last number we presented our readers a copy of an act 
passed by the Legislature of the State of New York relating to 
diseased animals, specially to those affected with glanders and 
farcy. We reprint to-day a similar act passed by the Legislature 
of the State of Massachusetts. 
That special legislation had become necessary to check the 
spread of these diseases is well manifest to all those who are en¬ 
gaged in veterinary practice, and cannot but be approved by all 
owners of horses. By experience we all know that glanders is 
always prevailing more or less in our large cities, and that in our 
large horse establishments many animals are yearly destroyed on 
account of their being thus diseased. From recent statistics 
which we have made in an official capacity, we can furnish our 
readers some interesting statements, relating to the existence of 
glanders in some of our stables in New York city. In one, at 
one visit we condemned 8 horses; in another, 18; in a third not 
less than 25, and at subsequent inspections a total of 20 more. In 
one establishment we were told by the president that the loss 
last year, had been from glanders and farcy alone, 200 horses- 
.Representing these at the low rate of $125 apiece, it is for that 
company alone, a loss of 25,000 dollars. 
The question naturally presents itself. What is the cause of 
such epizootics ? We may without difficulty understand it when 
it is known that almost none of those companies employ Veteri¬ 
narians to look after their stocks, and that those who fill the place 
of Veterinary Surgeons are generally entirely ignorant of the na¬ 
ture, and above all of the symptom of the disease and of its many 
insiduous and varied forms. 
That one who has seen a well marked case of glanders, with 
