antisepsis, abscesses opened and disinfected; iodoform insufflations, antiseptic gases, sprays and solutions. Internally: tonics, sulphocarbolates, iron muriate, iodides, phenic acid, quinia, strychnia, arsenite, stimulants, serum treatment, pure air, out door life, rich, digestible food. Radical efforts at prevention must look to the extinction of the disease in the soliped, and its complete exclusion from Australia and New Zealand shows that such a result is not unattainable. In the English army where every glandered horse is at once killed and all pertaining to him disinfected, the disease is now virtually unknown except in the case of newly purchased horses or regiments operating in the field. In the French army which formerly lost 9 per cent. per annum from glanders, now under similar precautions loses but .5 percent. A law providing for the prompt destruction of every glandered soliped and the safe disinfection of carcasses, stables, harness, vehicles, utensils, fodder, litter and manure that have been exposed to contamination, if enforced, would soon eradicate the disease. But this law should provide efficient machinery for its enforcement, and, under suitable safe guards, an appropriate indemnity for the owner. With the use of mallein in all infected studs, as a diagnostic agent, the campaign can be made sharp, short and effective, instead of waiting as in the past for the slow development of occult cases. The greatest and most fundamental error in veterinary sanitary legislation is the lack of a guarded indemnity for the animals killed. I strongly urged this fact on the committee of the N. Y. legislature in 1898 but to no purpose. A bill was passed forbidding all indemnity for glandered horses, and an impetus thus given to the spread of the disease is daily bearing fruit in our great cities especially, disastrous to the health of the horses, and a constant menace to that of humanity as well. The law makes it the duty of veterinarians to report all cases of glanders, but in great horse establishments such a report would stop the use of the whole stable, at a loss of thousands of dollars per diem, and put a sudden end to the employment of the reporting practitioner by the firm or corporation in question. The owner of one or two horses can afford to report, the loss of these and their work does not mean absolute ruin, but the owner of hundreds can not safely report. For owner and practitioner alike the alternatives are presented of obedience to the law with personal ruin on the one hand, and the surreptitious dealing with cases of glanders and the preservation of their livelihoods on the other. Whatever may be said as to the constitutionality of the law which destroys private property without compensation under the right of eminent domain, this is certain, that, as applied to animal plagues, this course is unjust, oppressive, and not only useless, but positively