90 FRENCH MILITARY VETERINARY MEDICINE. 
We believe we may point attention to a pretty considerable 
number of cases of cure of chronic and acute glanders. Out of 
1544 cases of admission for chronic glanders in the course of the 
year, 254 have been discharged cured. The 5th Cuirassiers, 5th 
and 6th Chasseurs, and the 4th Brigade of Artillery, have been 
remarkable for their number of cures of glanders. 
We have searched in vain for accounts of any particular treat- 
ment employed in these alleged cases, a circumstance which has 
induced us to opine that the asserted "cures” were either not cases 
of real glanders, or else that the temporary disappearance of the 
symptoms had been mistaken for recovery. 
In respect to chronic glanders, we do not pretend to assert that, 
up to the present day, no cases of cure have been recorded. There 
are but few veterinarians who have not made some observations of 
the kind; nevertheless, experience has shewn hitherto that these 
cures have been generally independent of treatment. 
In acute glanders, though success has been much more rare, still 
in certain regiments are cases of cure registered of this disease, none 
up to the present hour deeming it incurable. 
In comparing the mortality with the number of effective horses, 
we find it to be in the ratio of 33 to 1000 for acute and chronic 
glanders, of 1.55 for farcy, of 14 for diseases of the chest, and of 
11 for all other diseases. The general total being 64 per 1000. 
During the summer half-year the admissions into the infirmary 
have shewn an excess of 739, that being the season for military 
manoeuvres. It seems to us, the question might be put to colonels 
of regiments, whether some diminution might not be made in this 
number by increased attention to horse equipments, to feeding, to 
the different modes of manoeuvring, to the exercise-ground, to the 
care the horses receive after field-days, &c. 
Investigations have been instituted into the circumstances of the 
breed of horses in regiments, the barracks occupied by them, and 
the forage given to them, without eliciting, however, any thing sa- 
tisfactory. Unfortunately, for many years it has been shewn that 
certain regiments have ever been unfavourably classed from their 
losses, whilst, on the other hand, others have always appeared in a 
more estimable place ; and this has proved to have been the case 
under all kinds of circumstances. For example, one regiment shall 
