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eight, the same number between eight and nine, eighteen between 

 nine and ten, and seven only after the age of ten : making, how- 

 ever, ahogether but 131 instead of 134. Of 1634 remount horses, 

 most of them five-year-olds, received by another French regiment 

 in the course of eleven years, 396 were lost from glanders, viz., six 

 three-year-olds, forty-five four-year-olds, ninety-eight five-year- 

 olds, ninety-seven six-year-olds, ninety-nine seven-year-olds, and 

 fifty-one eight-year-olds. In a third French regiment, the total 

 number of glandered horses during a period of nine years amounted 

 to 167, of which the ages of 111 varied from five to nine years. 



These statements tend to confirm the deduction I ventured to 

 draw from my own comparatively limited experience, that glanders 

 was especially a disease of the adult and middle ages ; at the same 

 time they appear to put us in possession of another important fact, 

 Avhich is, that the mortality from glanders in the French cavalry is 

 much greater, in proportion to the numbers, than it is in our own. 

 Of British cavalry regiments serving in England, Scotland, and 

 Ireland, Avhose combined strength may be, in round numbers, com- 

 puted to be 5500 horses, I am informed by the Principal Veteri- 

 nary Surgeon, Mr. Cherry, there have been thirty-two horses 

 destroyed for glanders, and fifteen for farcy, in two years and a 

 half. In my own regiment, as I said on a former occasion, glanders 

 has shewn itself but once during the seventeen years I have served, 

 and that happened under peculiar incidental circumstances. 



In respect to Climate and Soil, it would appear that 

 glanders is a rare disease in cold and one absolutely unknown in 

 hot climates, in Arabia and Africa, to which, I believe, we may 

 add India ; my cousin, Mr. Charles Percivall, having informed me 

 that, during his eight years' residence in Bengal, while serving in 

 the 11th Light Dragoons, quartered at Meerut and Cawnpoore, he 

 had not seen a single case either of farcy or glanders. M. Saunier, 

 veterinary surgeon to the King of Portugal, assured Dupuy that no 

 case of glanders had occurred, to his knowledge, during the thirty 

 years be had been living at Lisbon. This was prior to the occu- 

 pation of that country by British troops. At the time of the Pe- 

 ninsular campaign everybody in our army knew that both farcy 

 and glanders prevailed to a great extent, and particularlv among 



