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ON THE PRODUCTION OF GLANDERS. 
■visited. — For further and ampler information on subjects so vitally 
interesting to us all, we must refer our readers to the volumes 
from which we extract these imperfect accounts. 
Les Memoir es et Observations sur V Hygiene et la 
Medecine Veterinaires Militaires, published 
last February at Paris. 
Foreign Extracts. 
Bulletin of the National and Central Society of 
Veterinary Medicine of France. 
New and Important Views of the Production of Glanders. 
At the sitting of the Society of the 8th March, 1849, M. H. 
BOULEY submitted, 
I. That glanders is a spontaneous disease only with the horse 
species ; it being, in other animals, always the result of contagion. 
That in the horse species it may be the result of contagion ; but 
that commonly it is a product of disordered and perverted nutritive 
action in the system, and, consequently, is in its origin peculiar 
to the horse species. 
II. That this exclusive generative faculty is coincident with the 
exclusive uses to which horses are put ; the horse being that vital 
machine which is employed for moving great weights or over- 
coming great resistance. 
III. Oxen in some localities are likewise so employed ; but then 
they do their work always at a tardy pace, so slow, indeed, that it 
does not interfere with rumination ; while horses, on the contrary, 
almost always work with more rapidity', and oftentimes are com- 
pelled to carry great weights at the same rapid pace. And, more- 
over, the horse, nervous and excitable by nature, freely gives him- 
self up to such rapid movements, expending thereby so much more 
strength in any given time than the bullock in his slow movement. 
IV. Excess of such kind of labour appears to be one of the 
causes of the horse’s deterioration and wearing out. And so 
glanders, viewed as the result of action in the living organ, is no- 
thing more, in a great number of cases, than the effect of exhaus- 
tion induced by labour to which the powers of the animal were 
inadequate. 
V. But how does this excessive work produce exhaustion and 
premature wearing out of the machine ? Modern science furnishes 
