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and caufes of each, and fliews the evil of their 

 being all confounded under one denomination : 

 he alfo rri^kes it evident that the true glanders 

 has its charadieriilics, which eflentially diftin- 

 guifh it frome very other difeafe that has been 

 called by the fame name. 

 ; And in order to prove that a great inflamma- 

 tion of the pituitary membrane is always the 

 caufe of the glanders,' he has attempted to 

 bring on an inflammation upon the fame mem- 

 brane by a corrofive injedion ; and when the 

 injedlion was only made into one fide, the max- 

 illary lymphatic glands were fwelled on the 

 fame fide, and that noilril only produced the 

 difcharge. 

 • But^ on the other hand, when both, noflrils 

 were inje^ed, thefe fymptoms appeared on both 

 fides. 



The author produced, with his memoir, a 

 feclion of fome of the bones of the head, 

 comprehending a portion of the maxillary and 

 frontal bones : thefe pieces had on their inner 

 furface very remarkable veiliges of a caries, and 

 are in many places become more thick than in 

 their natural ftate •, which feems to have been 

 produced by the continuance of a fuperabundance 

 of vitiated mucous matter, which foftened and 

 injured the texture of thefe bones. 



The firft memoir prefented by the Sieur la 

 FofTe was confined to a bare defcription of the 

 difeafe, and only a propofal of a method of 



I cure 



