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social ameliorations enable us to construct for them more salu- 
brious habitations! May our roads be improved, our carts and 
waggons rendered less cumbersome, and good and general educa- 
tion enlighten our farmers and peasantry — dissipate the mists of 
cruelty, barbarism, and prejudice, which cloud their understand- 
ings, and render them too often guilty of brutal and disgraceful 
actions, and contribute much to the mismanagement of the animals 
committed to their care ! If these ameliorations take place, we 
shall soon see many of the most dangerous and fatal diseases 
and epizootics disappear with these the causes of them. 
Since, then, we are not permitted to foresee the development of 
the maladies of which we are describing the causes, we search to 
study them under all their phases and different forms, in order to 
find their seat and their nature, and particularly to discover among 
their characters those which are attributable to contagion — a fearful 
property, which converts an isolated into a general evil. 
In this point of view, the first object of our study ought to be 
glanders; that ruinous disease, which appears to be so inseparably 
connected with every enterprise in which the horse is employed as 
an instrument of labour, and which is the most ordinary mode of 
the manifestation of the wearing-out of his constitution. 
At some future time we may resume this interesting topic. We 
now, however, have recourse to a continuation of 
The Course of Pathology and Therapeutics. 
Professor.. ..M. Delafond. 
The Professor has delivered in the course of this year many 
experiments on the action and effects of the therapeutic means 
with which it is proper to combat the diseases of the different 
species of the domesticated animals. 
These researches had for their object — 1. The modifications 
effected by the subtraction of blood, arterial, venous, and capillary, 
on the whole organism of the frame. 2. The effects produced on 
the diet, the liquids, and solids. 3. The changes produced in 
different substances considered as excitors of the nervous system, 
as purgatives, diuretics, antiputrescents, &c. The results of these 
researches have been partly inserted in the first volume of the 
Treatise of general Therapeutics which M. Delafond has just 
published. 
The same Professor has, in conjunction with M. le Docteur 
Gruby, undertaken a series of researches on the structure of the 
mucous intestinal membrane of the different domesticated animals, 
