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regiments; and that after marching several days most of them 
become attacked with distemper ( gourme ) more or less intensely. 
And it often happens, says he, while in this state, at a time that 
the cutaneous perspiration is excited by fatigue, should the skin 
become suddenly cooled by rain or snow or any other cause, 
that glandular swellings under the jaw make their appearance, 
become indurated, and at length acquire the characters of the 
submaxillary tumour symptomatic of chronic glanders. Such, 
according to our author, is one of the starting points of the 
scourge which has so long raged among the horses of the army. 
This opinion is based upon the following occurrence : — A de- 
tachment, consisting of fifty young horses, marched from Alen^on, 
in the course of the year 1838, for Epinal. The temperature 
was cold at the time. Out of them thirty-four were attacked 
with distemper, after marching for some days. Six months after, 
six of those who had suffered from distemper were destroyed for 
glanders. 
In these observations, the Committee are of opinion that M. 
Hure is too exclusive. He ought, in their opinion, to have 
placed to the account of the predisposing causes of glanders, ill 
assortment (of male and female) in breeding, the parsimonious 
manner in which colts intended for the army are fed, the pre- 
mature work they (from the age of a year and-a-half to three 
years and-a-half) are put to ; their abandonment, in certain 
parts of the country, out at pasture for the year together ; their 
subsequent hasty fattening to get them ready for sale, the sudden 
visissitudes of regimen and habits they are exposed to after 
purchase ; the transit from a state of liberty to confinement in 
a stable ; their agglomeration ; the defective conformation of 
certain of them ; their change of place, & c. 
After this, the author explains how it happens that breaking 
should be considered a cause in regiments of cavalry. He 
says, that the irascibility of certain subjects, together with their 
irritability or their susceptibility ( mollesse ), give rise at work 
to sweating; and that, after they are returned to their stables, 
the dragoons neglect to rub them quite dry ; the consequences 
of which are, that, before their breaking is completed, they suffer 
repeated suppressions of perspiration, the result of which in the 
end is chronic glanders. 
The Committee admit, with M. Hure, that frequent chills of 
the skin, at a time that it is bedewed with sweat, is apt to 
re-act in an injurious manner on the health, and particularly on 
the pulmonary system. It becomes our duty, however, to ob- 
serve, that the breaking of young horses is progressively and 
judiciously conducted, and that at their return to their stables 
they become the objects of especial attention, as is proved by 
