VETERINARY SCHOOL AT ALFORT. 
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than six inches square, he applied his iron two hundred times. 
This mode of cauterization, followed by the application of ab- 
sorbent powders after the fall of the eschars, was attended by the 
happiest results. Nineteen horses underwent this treatment, and 
it succeeded in them all. One condition, however, indispensable 
to this result, was, the rendering it impossible for the horse to 
bite or rub himself. 
During the last two years M. Renault has called the attention 
of veterinarians to the development of Farcy as a consequence of 
the re-absorption of pus , or of altered lymph deposited by the 
lymphatics on the surface of wounds. During the course of this 
year he observed, and brought under the notice of the pupils, no 
fewer than seventeen cases of farcy plainly arising from this 
cause. Farcy cords evidently took their origin from accidental 
wounds, or from phlegmonous abscesses. In nine of these cases 
the division of the cord before it arrived at the nearest ganglion, 
and the giving a ready escape to the pus secreted from the 
wound, were sufficient to arrest the progress of the disease. M. 
R., however, admits that such accidents can only be produced in 
horses whose constitution has been to a certain degree enfeebled. 
This professor has continued to practise, and with almost con- 
stant success, the extirpation of the ganglions beneath the jaw in 
horses that had exhibited symptoms of glanders, and when the 
induration of these ganglions remained after the ceasing of the 
nasal discharge and the cicatrization of the chancres. 
However convinced he may have been that chronic glanders is 
not contagious , M. R. has not ceased to pay all due attention to 
every thing that may cast the slightest light on the subject; and 
he is compelled to acknowledge, that all the facts which he has 
been enabled to collect, have confirmed him in his opinion of the 
non-contagiousness of this disease. 
He is of the same opinion with regard to the transmissibility of 
glanders from the horse to the human being : he does not believe 
that it ever takes place. He has not seen in the hospitals of the 
school, since he has had the honour of presiding over them, a 
single fact which would justify any suspicion of the kind. 
Every veterinarian knows that chronic glanders can, under 
certain circumstances, take on a character of intense acuteness, 
which may persist until the death of the animal, or disappear 
after a time, the malady resuming its primitive character. A 
horse had been, during many months, affected with chronic 
glanders ; but, one morning, the discharge from the nose was 
perceived to have become more abundant and fluid ; it escaped 
through both nostrils, and had, like the mucous membrane it- 
self, a peculiarly yellow tint. The chancres, few and circum- 
