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its characteristic gland, its sticky typical discharge, its peculiar 
ulcerations, or a case of farcy with its well developed cutaneous 
manifestations of swellings, corns or farcy buds; that he may in 
many instances have no trouble to recognize such condition and 
condemn the animal which present them, is no proof that he is 
competent; as the veterinarian of education knows that danger¬ 
ous as this form is, contagious as it will prove, it is not, when 
presenting all those well-marked symptoms, that the affection is 
most dangerous and the animal most to be feared. No. It is in 
the form of latent glanders, in the form of laryngeal glanders (as 
the French call it), for then the symptoms are scarcely apparent, 
they are easily overlooked and still the disease is just as contagious, 
In this form, where perhaps but little symptoms exist, and where 
in many cases, no apparent lesions can be detected, except by 
careful observations, the animal can have all the appearance of 
perfect health and still be a permanent center of infection. There 
is no doubt in our mind that cases of latent, internal glan¬ 
ders were the immediate cause of these great outbreaks, as they 
have already proved to be, in large establishments in Europe, 
specially some years ago in Paris. Glanders is an incurable dis¬ 
ease, and with it the only way to guard against its wide spreading 
in those establishments, is by prevention—prevention which can¬ 
not be obtained except by general inspections of the entire stock— 
inspections which ought to be made often and at regular intervals. 
We hope that the lessons so dearly learned by these compa.. 
nies will be a stimulus to show them the necessity of employing 
competent men to look after their horses and to guard them against 
a renewal of such pecuniary loss ; a small fraction of it would 
handsomely remunerate the services of a good Veterinarian. 
