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and caufes of each, and fhews the evil of their 

 being all confounded under one denomination : 

 he alfo rrfakes it evident that the true glanders 

 has its characteriftics, which effentially 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 injection ; and when the 

 injection was only made into one fide, the max- 

 illary lymphatic glands were fwelled on the 

 fame fide, and that noflril only produced the 

 difcharge. 



But on the other hand, when both noflrils 

 were injected, thefe fymptoms appeared on both 

 fides. 



The author produced, with his memoir, a 

 fection 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 vefciges 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 firfl memoir prefented by the Sieur la 



Foflfe was confined to a bare defcription of the 



difeafe, and only a propofal of a method of 



i cure 



