Extracts, Veterinary and Medical, from Domestic and Foreign 
Journals, &e. 
On the Causes of Glanders in Cavalry Horses. 
By M. ROBERT, First Veterinary Surgeon to the Fifth Regiment 
of Artillery at la Fere ( Aisne ). 
If hitherto the various modes of treatment employed as reme- 
dies against glanders have proved inefficient, it is because the 
actual causes to which the ravages of this disease are attributable 
have not yet been accurately determined'; they have long been 
misapprehended, and still continue to be so. Many persons are 
impressed with the belief that bad stables and contagion have most 
to do with the development of the disease. 
We see by the periodical journals, that the opinions of our 
brethren in the army, as well as those of other persons whose at- 
tention is devoted to the horse, are by no means unanimous as to 
what are the causes of glanders. Some attribute it to the bad 
quality of the food ; others to badly managed stables — to the air 
in them being vitiated, and to the temperature being too high ; 
while others, again, consider it to arise from the horses being 
worked too young, and, in some, from an innately bad constitution. 
Without attempting to deny the greater or less influence which 
most of these causes may have on the development of disease, and 
especially of glanders, I believe their action to be very secondary, 
and that the primary cause, and in the army the principal one, lies 
in sudden suppression of perspiration. 
As it is my wish that the importance of this cause should be 
properly estimated, I shall endeavour to reply to those who have 
adduced others. To the partisans of contagion, I reply, that, even 
admitting the contagiousness of glanders, so great are the precau- 
tionary measures adopted in the army, that, where this disease ap- 
pears, its development is certainly attributable to any other cause 
rather than that of contagion. Sanatory visits are paid to all the 
stables every week ; as soon as a horse becomes glandered it is 
separated from the others, placed in a different stable, and cleaned 
and tended by men kept expressly for that purpose. Besides, we do 
not admit the contagiousness of glanders where a horse has simply 
enlarged glands, and does not run at the nose. 
To those who attribute the evil to bad fodder, we reply that this 
cause is not applicable to the army ; for all the regiments have it 
in their power to give their horses good passable provender, if not 
