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THE VETERINARY SCHOOL AT ALFORT. 
We have tried whether the virulent matter existed elsewhere, 
as well as in the product of the nasal secretion ; and we have 
seen inoculation performed with the fluids abstracted from the 
abscesses in the lungs very rapidly produce acute glanders. 
Blood possesses the same virulent properties. Injected into 
the vessels of a sound horse immediately after its extraction 
from the vein, it produces at the end of three or four days the 
eruption of glanders. 
In order to assure ourselves still more whether glanders could 
be transmitted to animals different from the horse species, we 
have attempted inoculation with the virus of glanders on four 
cows, three sheep, six dogs, and six rabbits. All the inocula- 
tions made on the horse produced, without exception, their ac- 
customed effect, and all our attempts have been completely 
fruitless on the rest of these animals. 
It has been the same with trials of cohabitation, during more 
than six months, between horses attacked with acute glanders 
and animals of different kinds. 
Chronic Glanders . — In this year, as in all the preceding ones, 
w 7 e have been forced to confess the complete impotency of the 
efforts that we had made to cure chronic glanders. This result 
will astonish none of those who know the irreparable lesions that 
lay in the foundation of this malady. When we have assisted 
in the post-mortem examination of horses really attacked with 
chronic glanders; when they have seen the destruction, so pro- 
found, of the membrane which lines the interior of the nostrils ; 
the collection of purulent matter in the cavities, almost without 
the issue of any from the sinus ; the transformation, so complete, 
of the membrane which naturally clothes the walls of these cavi- 
ties ; when we have examined the lungs of a horse affected with 
glanders, and have occasionally seen tubercles filled with per- 
forations, sometimes deeply modified in their substance, and on 
the point of being converted, in large spaces, into a whitish sub- 
stance, compact, and impermeable to the air; when we have seen, 
in the lymphatic apparatus those alterations at once so decided, 
and also of the lymph, and of the organs which prepare it and 
transport it, we are not astonished that a disease, of which the 
influence is so general on the whole economy, and which destroys 
organs so essential to the integrity of the organic movements, 
should be entirely beyond the efforts of art. 
We have not indeed seen, in the course of this year, the public 
credulity affected to any extraordinary degree to witness those 
new attempts to cure glanders, undertaken by men who, abusing 
high patronage, have dared publicly to announce certain results 
from means which they themselves know to be completely ineffi- 
