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stationed there had horses very inferior to the ordinary cavalry 
horses ; but that all sudden suppression of perspiration was carefully 
avoided, the horses being cleaned in the stable all the year round, 
well watered and clothed, and the stables kept constantly shut. 
It is the same in the English and German cavalry, where glanders 
is a disease of rare occurrence, or only appearing under peculiar 
circumstances. 
In summing up, I repeat — that in the French cavalry, cold 
stables, currents of air passing through these stables, and cleaning 
the horses out of doors, are the true causes of glanders . 
In order to induce conviction of the truth of what I have' ad- 
vanced, it will only be necessary to clean the horses in their stables 
for one whole year, or even to make a comparative experiment in 
two regiments stationed in the same town, under the influence of 
similar conditions as regards work, exercise, stabling, and food. 
They should likewise be, as far as possible, horses of the same 
branch of the service, and in equally good condition. I am quite 
positive that the results would be in favour of that regiment where 
the horses were kept warm, and that the ravages of glanders would 
be greatest in the one that cleaned its horses out of doors. The 
losses would reach their greatest height, however, if the regiment 
fed some of its horses every year on green meat, and debilitated 
them by weekly rations of bran-mash. As a pupil of the school 
at Alfort, where I obtained the first prize, and received my appoint- 
ment as veterinary surgeon in 1819, this is the first time, after 
twenty-six years’ of practice, and being veterinary surgeon to 
the department of the Moselle for six years, that I have ventured 
to give publicity to my opinions relative to the causes of glanders. 
They are the results of close observation in both civil and military 
veterinary practice ; and of a careful study of numerous cases 
met with under different hygienic conditions and varied relative 
circumstances ; and it has not been until after having availed 
myself of every opportunity for many years past of conversing 
with my veterinary brethren on the causes of glanders, and espe- 
cially with Messieurs Dehan, at Luneville, and Bournier, at Metz, 
two very talented ex- military veterinarians, whose opinions relative 
to glanders are in conformity with my own, that I have ventured 
to draw up this paper, which I now conclude by repeating, that 
glanders arises from derangements of the functions of the skin, 
derangements which are most frequently occasioned by out-of-door 
cleanings. 
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