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with a stock of dried lymph in order to be prepared for an outbreak 
of Smallpox. It is at the first appearance of the disease that vac¬ 
cination will most readily prevent or check its spread, and I think 
that this experiment makes it clear that in dried lymph \ve hâve 
vaccine in such a portable and stable form that it can be kept in 
stock at the most distant and hottest out-stations. 
(.Laboratory of Nairobi ). 
Résumé. — L’auteur a constaté que du vaccin desséché par la 
méthode Achalme-Phisalix et conservé depuis 3 ans, 2 ans et 
1 an donnait 70, 82 et 81 % de succès. Ce mode de préparation du 
vaccin convient donc parfaitement pour les pays chauds. 
Nasal lésions in glanders 
and épizootie lymphangitis 
B y Andrew B AL FOUR. 
I was interested in the communication regarding the presence 
of nasal lésions in glanders and épizootie lymphangitis communi- 
cated to the Société de Pathologie Exotique by M. Bridré and 
appearing in the Bulletin of december nth., 1912. 
Last May when returning in our floating laboratory from the 
sleeping sickness area of what was un-til recently the Lado En¬ 
clave (now called Western Mongalla) in the far Southern Sudan, 
I found at the post of Mongalla on the east bank of the Bahr- 
El-Jebel, a mule presenting an appearance strongly suggestive of 
glanders. There was a large swelling in the nasal région which 
was diseharging a thick pus from the mouth of a sinus while pu¬ 
rulent fluid was trickling from the nostrils. On passing a probe' 
into the external opening of the sinus I found the latter commu 
nicated directly with the nasal cavity. There was no glandular en- 
largement and nothing to point to épizootie lymphangitis. On 
examining smears of the pus, however, I found a severe infection 
with the Saccharomyces farcinosus of Rivolta while culture 
only showed the presence of various pyogénie organisms and no 
evidence of B. mallei . No mallein was available for the inocula- 
