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see and l?e satisfied ; and it was not long before opportunity 
offered for me to make my operation public. The remount 
at Rennes afforded me ample means of obtaining these nume- 
rous and irrefragable proofs which I had desired for the 
public ; and then it was that I resolved to make my method 
known, through a paper, to the Central Society of Veterinary 
Medicine. 
Shortly after this it w*as that I learnt, from your estimable 
journal, that Mr. Benjamin had addressed to the society a 
memoir on 6 Castration by Limited Torsion / though I, at the 
same time, perceived that M. Benjamiffs instrument for 
restricting the torsion was not like the one I make use of 
myself ; with this difference, both operations are nearly alike. 
(The conclusion of this article is occupied with claims, 
principally of priority of date , set forth to the practice or 
discovery of this mode of operating over others preferred 
by MM. Chevrier and Benjamin, which, in our view, seem 
justifiable; though, after all, the pretensions of torsion to 
favorable notice, as a sure and safe arrester of dangerous 
haemorrhage, has of late years experienced considerable 
dubitation and suspicion.) — E d. Vet. 
ON THE CONTAGION OF CHRONIC GLANDERS. 
By M. Anginiard, Junior Veterinarian at Marie. 
By chronic glanders I mean an affection characterised 
by nasal flux, most commonly but from one nostril, of a 
greenish matter, adhering in part to the wings of the nostril; 
discoloration of the pituitary membrane, with a glace aspect 
of it, and an abatement of temperature of the same side; 
ulcerations, variable in number and extent, having denticulated 
edges, with whitish bases, without any traces of inflammation, 
occupying part or the whole of this mucous surface; and, 
lastly, swelling of the lymphatic glands, with adherence of 
them to the surrounding tissues. Under the influence of 
the disease horses conserve every appearance of health ; they 
continue vigorous and do their work as usual ; so that one 
would say, a new function was superadded to the economy 
without at all influencing the others common to the body; 
only that, from time to time, the coat becomes pen-feathered, 
the skin painful, the appetite diminished, and the functions 
disturbed, soon again to resume their accustomed rhythm. 
If opinions have varied concerning the nature of glanders, 
they have all concurred on the score of symptoms ; so little 
