aid that "as this disease is communicated very easily
and can infect in a very short time a prodigious number of horses by
means of the discharges which may be licked up, animals infected with
glanders should be destroyed."

Bourgelat, the founder of veterinary schools, in his "Elements of
Hippiatry," published in 1755, establishes glanders as a virulent
disease.

Extensive outbreaks of glanders are described as prevailing in the great
armies of continental Europe and England from time to time during the
periods of all the wars of the last few centuries.

Glanders was imported into America at the close of the eighteenth
century, and before the end of the first half of the last century had
spread to a considerable degree among the horses of the Middle and
immediately adjoining Southern States. This disease was unknown in
Mexico until carried there during the Mexican War by the badly diseased
horses of the United States Army. During the first half of the last
century a large body of veterinarians and medical men protested against
the contagious character of the disease, and by their opinion prevailed
to such an extent against the common opinion that several of the
Governments of Europe undertook a series of experiments to determine the
right between the contesting parties.

At the veterinary school at Alfort and at the farm of Lamirault in
France several hundred horses which had passed examination as sound had
placed among them glandered horses under various conditions. The results
of these experiments proved conclusively the contagious character of the
disease.

In 1881 Bouchard, of the faculty of medicine in Paris, assisted by
Capitan and Charrin, undertook a series of experiments with matter taken
from the farcy ulcer of a human being. They afterwards continued their
experiments with matter taken from horses, and in 1883 succeeded in
showing that glanders is caused by a bacterium which is capable of
propagation and reproduction of others of its own kind if placed in the
proper media. In 1882 the specific germ of glanders was first discovered
and described by Loeffler and Schuetz in Germany.

When we come to study the etiology of glanders, the difference of
susceptibility on the part of different species of animals, or even on
the part of individuals of the same species, and when we come to find
proof of the slow incubation and latent character of the disease as it
exists in certain individuals, we understand how