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pulmonary tissue. The lungs present vomicce or cysts of various 

 sizes, containing thick reddish matter, or else a more liquid cheese- 

 like matter." 



Dupuy has likewise discovered miliary tubercles within the 

 parenchyma of the liver and kidney; but much oftener than in 

 either of these bodies, within the testicles. Even the epidydymis 

 has contained them. 



Dupuy agrees with Gilbert in regarding strangles as so far 

 ''identical in its nature with glanders;" — "that strangles and 

 bastard-strangles as well as farcy, grease, and ophthalmia, are 

 frequently the results of one and the same specific cause ;" that cause 

 being " the tuberculous affection." — " Glanders itself," he adds, 

 ^'is a specific disease, and not a termination of strangles, bastard- 

 strangles, cynanche maligna, farcy, watery farcy, catarrh, &c. 

 When the lungs are affected, it is a sequel of the tuberculous dis- 

 position, and not a termination of pneumonia. On the contrary, 

 pneumonic affections are very often consequences of the tuberculous 

 affection." And in another place — " observation has shewn that 

 puriform matter coming from the bronchicfi, which is discharged 

 by the nose, does not cause glanders in 2jassi?i(/ over the nasal 

 membrane, as veterinarians have imagined." 



Dupuy informs us that glanders may exist in that "latent" form, 

 that it may not by the most acute observation be discoverable 

 during life. '' Tubercles will exist not merely in the first, but 

 even in the second degree of development in the internal viscera, 

 without deranging their functions, and particularly in the lungs." 

 Or the disease may, after having made its appearance, subside for 

 a time, and afterwards re-appear, without any ostensible reasons. 



Speaking of what in France is called acute glanders, Dupuy 

 tells us " it is a disease of another order. It must not be con- 

 founded luith the tuberculous afifection ; rather, it has analogies 

 with the typhus of cattle or with the great epizootics which at 

 different periods have ravaged France and Europe." — "All I am 

 desirous," adds Dupuy, " of impressing, is, that this disease cannot 

 be considered as glanders^ It is consequently one concerning 

 which, for the present at least, we need take no account*. 



* Op. Cit., page 204. 



