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clothed the walls of these cavities ; — when they examine the 
lungs of a glandered horse, and have sometimes seen the per- 
foration of the tubercles deeply modified in their substance, 
and at the point of being converted, in large masses, into a white 
compact body impermeable to the air; — when they have seen in 
the lymphatic apparatus those sudden and complete alterations 
of the lymph and the organs which prepare and support it ; they 
will not be astonished that a disease, of which the influence is 
so general on the whole economy, and which destroys parts so 
essential to the integrity of the organic movements, should be 
altogether beyond the efforts of art. 
Have we not seen, in fact, in the course of this year, the pub- 
lic credulity sadly abused by some new attempts to cure glanders, 
undertaken by men who, under some high patronage, have dared 
publicly to announce certain results of measures which they knew 
to be inefficacious? Such speculations ought to be despised. 
The public should be taught that in no system of therapeutics 
will the means of curing glanders be found, or they will only 
arrest the ravages of this malady when the laws of health are 
better studied and understood, and our ameliorated races of 
horses are better adapted to the services that are required of them, 
and it will be known how properly to proportion the services of 
a horse to the strength of his constitution. 
Sarcocele. 
Among the first signs of chronic glanders there is one that has 
often presented itself to us in the course of this year, and which 
we have been able to observe in all its varying difference of ap- 
pearance, and also study the varied alterations which are attached 
to it. We refer to the engorgement of the testicle, vulgarly 
known by the name of effort, and improperly described under 
that of sarcocele. 
The engorgement of the testicles, which often precedes glan- 
ders by several months, is always accompanied, at the time of its 
appearance, by a very marked febrile state. The horse becomes 
dull, refuses his food, and principally his oats; the coat is rough 
and hard ; the vertebral column is bent ; the walk becomes con- 
strained ; and it is especially difficult in the hind limbs, which 
progress with a kind of forced abduction. The pulse is strong 
and quick, the respiration hurried and nervous, the mucous 
membrane injected, and often covered with numerous petechial 
spots. Twelve or twenty-four hours at most after the appear- 
ance of these symptoms, the region of the testicle becomes the 
seat of a considerable engorgement. It is hot, and painful when 
pressed upon, oedematous in its whole extent, and prolonged 
especially by a hot and painful oedema in the region of the belly 
