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organs that could possibly be affected and there was a detailed rep ort for
ever y organ of ever y subject. e procedures in e “G” Report were almost

certainly vivisections. is was due to there being multiple points in which

the author referred to information about the disease’s progression that could

only be attained by having dissected the subject before they died—days or

weeks before the disease evolved to its nal, let hal, stage. However, similar to

the “A” Report, this report lacks any speci c description of the vivisection
procedures as it is more of a report of the results. On page 109 of e Report

of “G,” the author states, “I cannot explain ‘the met hods of infection and

clinical symptoms’ in detail, while I have not received thes e records.” is

shows that the author, though present at the vivisections of the subjects (in

order to even create the report), did not oversee the entire process of
infecting and monitoring the subjects. is explains why there is so little

information on the details or circumstances of the vivisections; the author

was most likely not present for some portion of the exper iment likely

performed by a low level technician.

From detailed notes on the reported results of the disease, the e ects of

glanders disease, include:

Heart: Interstitial edema in the subendocardial tissues (swelling in the

uid- lled space of muscular walls of the heart which contain ner ves
and impulse-conducting system that allows it to beat), miliar y

glanders-knots (scabs and rashes in the inner tissues of the heart, some

of which inhibit the ow of blood in the heart through swelling),

degeneration in the cartilage of the heart (weakening and deter ioration

of the heart, reducing its ability to circulate blood), Rheumatoid-knots