226 ON THE PRODUCTION OF GLANDERS. 
property, of the environs of Alfort, brought to the College a va- 
luable horse, to have treated for a disease of the foot. The treat- 
ment occupying several weeks, he bought a horse to use during 
the time in his place. The fresh purchase had enlarged glands at 
the time, and afterwards turned glandered. The owner was ig- 
norant of this at the period of the return of his cured horse from 
College, and put him up by the side of the other, and for some time 
worked the two together. The new purchase became glandered 
after a doubtful form, it being neither defined acute nor chronic, as 
does happen sometimes at the latter stages, when we expect to 
recognize well-marked chronic glanders. M. Prudhomme and my- 
self examined the old horse with whom the other had cohabited 
and worked : he presented all the symptoms of well-marked chronic 
glanders. Here, evidently, was a case of contagion of chronic 
glanders : nevertheless, the observation was not complete without 
the autopsy. I had the glandered horse destroyed immediately. 
His lungs and upper nasal passages displayed unequivocal tests of 
acute glanders. 
How many facts related of chronic glanders are there identical 
with this one ! What conclusion shall we draw from this! Why, 
that, in practice, glanders ought to be viewed as a contagious 
disease ; since so often acute glanders, which all the world regards 
as contagious, is cloaked under the chronic guise. So that, 
henceforth, if the question is to be discussed, it must be theoreti- 
cally : the practical question being set at rest, admits of no further 
discussion . — Recueil de Med. Vet. Aug. and Sept. 1849. 
*** An interesting discussion followed this novel and ingenious 
exposition of the nature of the virus and contagion of glanders, 
which we shall look over at another time. — E d. Yet. 
At the sitting of the Society of the 8th November, 1849, an- 
nouncements were made of the receipt of letters from— 
1. Mr. Percivall, veterinary surgeon to the Queen’s Body Guard, 
thanking the society for conferring upon him the honour of Cor- 
responding Member. 
2. Mr. Field, veterinary surgeon, London, to the same purport. 
3. Mr. Morton, Professor of Chemistry at the Veterinary College 
of London, to the same purport. 
Also of the receipt of M. Goux’s “ Memoir on Castration,” which 
has been translated into The VETERINARIAN. 
