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THE 

 REPORT of the COMMITTEE 



OF THE 



Royal Academy of Sciences. 



Extrafi of the Regijlers of this Academy of the 

 8th of January, 1752. 



"D Y order of the Royal Academy of Sci- 

 -*-^ ences we have examined a new memoir 

 of the Sieur la Fofle upon the glanders in 

 hories. 



In the firft memoir he delivered upon this 

 fubject, he has eftablifhed 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 object of this report, he improves and brings 

 to perfection, his difcovery. He diftinguifhes 

 feven kinds of difcharges which may come from 

 the noftrils of horfes, lays down the fymptoms 



and 



