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During this state of the question, we turned to 

 the French veterinarians, who up to a certain period 

 enjoyed the reputation of being superior to all 

 Europe besides in this and a few other pursuits 

 [war and chemistry, videlicit], and found one of 

 their most respected names had arranged the boun- 

 daries and distinguishing qualities of the two into 

 three divisions, and these into seven kinds. Nor 

 was this all : after the lapse of half a century, M. 

 La Fosse, the younger, who enjoyed the post of 

 " principal farrier to the French army," and was 

 withal a member of the Institute, insisted with much 

 energy, that " glanders of the first species, the real 

 glanders, glanders properly so called, absolutely 

 consists of nothing more than the loss of the sense 

 of smelling," and is " a curable disorder, if treated 

 earl?/, but incurable when confirmed." His treat- 

 ment was very simple, and worthy of calm con-, 

 sideration. as are also the means he proposes for 

 ascertaining by the symptoms when it is a horse is 

 afflicted with communicable glanders, and ought to 

 be destroyed. It is in this latter respect we reprint 

 here the substance of La Fosse's researches on this 

 highly interesting subject ; for, since none of us 

 can offer a remedy that ought to be relied upon — 

 unless the animal be submitted to our measures 

 earlier than is usual — we think an useful particle 

 may be added to the new study of medical jurispru- 

 dence, by showing the line of demarcation that 

 divides health and contagion — the point at which 



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