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THE 



REPORT of the COMMITTEE 



O F T H E 



Royal Academy of Sciences. 



Extras of the Regifters of this Academy of the 

 2th of January i ^75'^* 



T> Y order of the Royal Academy of Sci- 

 -■-^ ences we have examined a new memoir 

 of the Sieur la Fofle upon the glanders in 

 horfes. 



In the firil memoir he delivered upon this 

 fubjecl, he has efbablilhed by obfervations, 

 confirmed by the committee of the academy, 

 that the pituitary membrane is the feat of this 

 difeafe •, which in confequence of an inflamma- 

 tion, ulcerates and makes an habitual difcharge 

 of a corrofive pus which renders the bones it 

 adheres to carious ; and in the memoir which is 

 the obje6l of this report, he improves and brings 

 to perfection, his difcovery. He diftinguiflies 

 feven kinds of difcharges which may come from 

 the noflrils of horfes, lays down the fymptoms 



and 



