PROTECTION AGAINST GLANDERS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVI, Issue 1323, 28 August 1894, Page 6

PROTECTION AGAINST GLANDERS.

j In a recent number of the new Russian journal, an account is given ■ of the latest endeavours to secure protection against glanders. It would appear from the experiments here re- ! corded that as a means of diagnoscing ! glanders the “ malleine ” (extracted from cultures of the glanders bacillus) is of great value. On being inoculated into horses suspected of having glanders, and into healthy animals or horses suffering from some other disease respectively, the different effect produced was constant and very clearly defined. In the case of the former, the existence of glanders was indicated by a distinct rise in temperature, from i°'s to 3 0 C., and the formation of a tumour, whilst in the latter the temperature did not rise, or only slightly, and an insignificant tumour, or none at all, was produced at the place of inoculation. Innumerable experiments on horses by various investigators confirm these results, and, as a proof of importance which is attached to these researchers, it may be mentioned that only last September a circular was addressed by the German Government to the commanders of the cavalry, ordering the injection of “malleine” into the horses of those regiments where cases of glanders were proved to have occurred.