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again suspended from the same cause, and at length its use was 
persisted in. The ulcers gradually healed — the glands regained 
their natural size — the discharge ceased, and the horse returned 
to his work. During the whole of the treatment the horse had 
plenty of good hay and corn, and did not at any time lose his 
condition. 
M. Leblanc thinks that this good, or rather high, feeding, 
is indispensable ; and he attributes the loss of a great many 
patients to neglect in this particular, and especially to neg- 
lect of hand-feeding when the horse is not disposed to eat without 
coaxing. 
Fifteen days after the complete disappearance of the symp- 
toms of glanders the horse was sent to work, and to hard work. 
Two years and a half had expired, and he was well. At the 
moment of his writing, Jan. 15, 1834, the mucous membrane 
of the nose was covered by cicatrices. 
Five other horses were likewise perfectly cured. 
Four horses were submitted to the same treatment, without 
ultimate beneficial result. The ulcers healed, and the ganglions 
subsided only to reappear, and the animals were all destroyed. 
The frontal sinuses were in all of them affected, and filled with 
purulent matter. The fumigation could not reach the seat of dis- 
ease. The sinuses should have been opened with the trephine, 
and I have since recommended this in bad and obstinate cases. 
Percussion will often detect the presence of pus in the sinuses, but 
is not always to be depended upon, especially when the surgeon 
uses his finger alone. A small pocket hammer would not often 
deceive. The disease of the sinuses appears to be consecutive to 
that of the nostril, and we should succeed oftener if we could 
combat the malady at its commencement. 
Since the close of 1831, (M. Leblanc continues) I have had 
53 horses either farcied or glandered, under my care, and 39 of 
them have been cured. The greater part of these were young- 
horses, and in good condition when attacked. In too many 
cases the malady is ushered in by sudden loss of condition 
and appetite, and by a staring coat and tucked up flanks — and 
these are produced by excess of work, and little food, and, in 
many and many cases, are the veritable causes of glanders. 
Any place, however wretched, is thought to be good enough for a 
glandered horse ; so that often, if death would not otherwise 
have been the result of the disease, it is rendered inevitable by 
unfeeling and shameful neglect*. 
In the same Journal, but in the following year, M. Patu, a 
* Journal de M£d. Vet Theorique, 1834. 
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