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MEMOIR ON TENOTOMY. 
should believe the two diseases to be identical !” It is not neces- 
sary to prove the identity when the analogy is so strikingly evi- 
dent. It is sufficient to know that any person coming in contact 
with farcied or glandered horses is liable to contract a serious if not 
mortal disease. This fact, announced by M. Rayer, was already 
sanctioned by experience. How imprudent is it, then, to maintain a 
contrary opinion, and one so fraught with individual and public 
danger. With respect to the slightness of the lesions in the nasal 
cavities when compared with the seriousness of the disease, this is 
by no means extraordinary, since this lesion does not constitute the 
disease, although it is an invariable symptom of it. Beside the local 
symptoms, there are other and very serious general symptoms, 
that precede the lesion of the nasal cavities. That general dis- 
turbance of all the functions of the animal economy, too much 
neglected by anatomo-pathologists, constitutes, properly speaking, 
the whole disease. It indicates the power and depth of the delete- 
rious influences exercised by the presence of a specific virus in the 
organization. 
Since 1838, numerous well-authenticated facts and cases have 
been collected and detailed in France as well as in other countries; 
and in all them it has been proved that the individuals suffering 
under the farcino-glanderous affection had previously been in more 
or less direct contact with horses labouring under the same disease. 
The medical men who attended these persons have one and all 
recognised and acknowledged the disease, and they are now 
thoroughly convinced that farcy and glanders are contagious dis- 
eases and that this contagion is relative and not absolute, as is, in 
fact, the case with all other contagions. 
Recueilde Id telecine Vtterinaire Pratique, Feb. 1845, p. 93-108. 
MEMOIR ON TENOTOMY. 
Presented to the Veterinary Society of the Department of the Seine. 
By T. Prudhomme, Chief Clinical Officer at the Alfort School. 
[From the Recueil de Medecine Veterinaire for January, 1845.] 
Tenotomy, in veterinary surgery, is the name given to the 
methodical division of a tendon, and of general aponeurosis : an 
operation that has for its object the remedying of certain defects, 
for the most part acquired, which, in the course of time, may re- 
duce the animal to that state in which he is unfitted for use. 
