470 EXPERIMENTS ON THE TREATMENT OF GLANDERS. 
pletely vanish when other experiments have been tried. How- 
ever it may be accounted for, glanders is at present ranked 
among the incurable diseases by the skilful and the candid 
practitioner. 
We say “at present ” for we hope — we believe — that the secret 
of the cure of glanders will at some future time be revealed. 
We have a preventive against small-pox, and we have a cure 
for syphilis. We say “at present for beside M. Leblanc, 
there are at this moment three men, who, with a zeal and per- 
severance worthy of all praise, are pursuing a course of experi- 
ments, the object of which is to prove that glanders may be 
treated with success, when it is treated with reason and method. 
Of these three experimentalists, one is M. Maculet, a provin- 
cial priest, who has travelled from the south of France in order 
to exhibit at the school at Alfort a mode of treatment which has 
been uniformly successful. Three gland ered horses have been 
placed at his disposal by the Minister of War, and which he has 
already been treating two months in one of the stables of that 
school. Setons have been placed in the chest ; large blisters 
have been applied to the head and neck ; a course of purgatives 
has been administered ; the enlarged glands have been covered 
in turn by vesicatory and emollient applications ; bleedings have 
been repeatedly practised at certain intervals, and divers fumi- 
gations have been made. Certain medicaments also, the nature 
of which is at present unkrfown, have been given by the mouth, 
or injected up the nostril. They form a very important portion 
of the process, for M. Maculet preserves a profound silence with 
regard to them, and will not permit any person to be present 
when they are administered. M. Maculet is very sanguine of 
success. We sincerely hope that his expectations may not be 
disappointed. 
The second experimentalist is M. Gaily, an apothecary, and 
formerly associated with M. Delandine for a similar purpose. 
The little success, however, of these experiments did not dis- 
courage him. While his associate went to meet with new dis- 
appointment at Betz, M. Gaily composed and published a book, 
in which, after stating his opinions respecting the nature and 
causes of glanders, he laid down the basis of a new mode of 
treating that disease, more rational, according to him, than any 
that had been tried. He afterwards solicited and obtained from 
the Minister of War a certain number of horses, which he treats 
at Pomponne on the principles developed in that work. 
Finally, as we have been informed, M. Dupuy is about to be- 
come the third experimentalist, and also at Pomponne. Thirty- 
five years of disappointment in the treatment of glanders have 
