VETERINARY SCHOOL AT ALI'ORT. 
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quantity of this matter, and the absorption of it, which was the 
cause of the return of the nasal discharge, and of the ulcerations 
and farcied cords by which it was accompanied. In conse- 
quence of this, he attempted to extirpate these glands in horses 
that were in the situation just described. For the most part, this 
operation was attended by the happiest results ; but if it was 
practised on animals already chancred and discharging, it not 
only was unavailing, but it always aggravated the disease. 
It is well known, that ulcerations, variable in number and 
extent, sometimes develope themselves most rapidly on the nasal 
membrane, and which are not accompanied, at first, either by 
discharge from the nose or enlargement of the glands beneath 
the jaw. 
Many cases of this kind have presented themselves this year 
in our hospital, in which the cicatrization of these ulcerations 
has been obtained by touching them with the nitrate of silver, 
and, after the fall of the different eschars, injecting on the little 
wounds that remain, a solution of the subacetate of lead, and 
blowing some powdered charcoal into the nostril several times in 
the day. 
The Contagion of Chrontc Glanders, to the fear of which 
the army and the commercial and agricultural interests have 
sacrificed so many excellent horses, has always been regarded as 
doubtful by the director of this hospital. Not a single case of it 
has occurred, or been suspected during the present year. He 
thinks, more than ever, that the government would render an es- 
sential service to all these interests if it would institute a series 
of simple and not expensive experiments on this point. 
The Contagion of Acute Glanders, on which all veterina- 
rians are nearly agreed, has been the subject of two experiments 
during the last year. A horse, six or seven years old, and sadly 
knuckling over in both fore feet, had been sent by the knacker 
for the purpose of dissection. In order to demonstrate to the pu- 
pils, by the evidence of their own eyes, the efficacy of the section 
of the perforans tendon in such a case, M. Renault performed 
that operation; and the wounds having perfectly healed, he caused 
this horse to be worked in a carriage by the side of another horse 
that had been sent to the school on account of acute glanders. 
Some days afterwards small chancres appeared, and then dis- 
charge from the nose, and enlargement of the glands under the 
jaw. But this animal, being placed in a stable by himself imme- 
diately after the appearance of these symptoms, and the glands 
having been extirpated, and the chancres cauterized, every cha- 
racter of glanders disappeared, and he is at the present time in 
the service of the school, and in a good state of health. 
