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five folio pages, and terminates the manuscript. M. Loiset was 
not able to finish his work on account of the near approach of 
the concours ; but, in order to give us some idea of what will be 
its importance when finished, the author has subjoined a list of 
all the subjects on which he proposes to treat. These will, it 
appears, amount to seventeen, and the cases by which they will 
be illustrated increase that number to sixty. 
Although this work is incomplete, it is exceedingly valuable, 
and contains some highly interesting and novel views and opinions. 
M. Berger, Veterinary Surgeon to the 3d Regiment of Dra- 
goons, had addressed a manuscript of three hundred folio pages, 
entitled u On Glanders and Farcy in Troop Horses.” 
This important Essay is divided into eight chapters, the con- 
tents of all of which are summed up in the conclusion. 
In the first chapter M. Berger admits that glanders was known 
to the ancients, and finds proofs of this in the translations of 
the Greek hippiatrists, and in the writings of Vegetius. On 
reaching the age of Louis XIV, he passes successively in review 
all the various works which have appeared on this subject, from 
that of Sollysel to the present day. 
The author divides glanders into two varieties, chronic and 
acute . The former is subdivided into common chronic glanders , 
properly so called, which he likewise designates humid glanders, 
and which may be either primitive or secondary ; and into dry 
glanders , which is almost invariably primitive in the organization, 
and which appears spontaneously. Acute glanders is subdivided 
into “ acute glanders, improperly so called,” which is neither 
more nor less than the termination of an attack of chronic 
glanders; and into “ spontaneous acute glanders,” which may 
be either primitive or secondary. Acute glanders receives the 
name of acute glanders properly so called and gangrenous coryza, 
or contagious affection of the head, according to the appearances 
which it puts on. 
Farcy, like glanders, is either acute or chronic : the former 
may either be slight or dangerous ; the latter is invariably a se- 
rious matter. M. Berger, in common with many other veterina- 
rians, is of opinion that glanders and farcy are identical. Accord- 
ing to him, it is not the solids alone that are altered by this 
affection, for that which is termed a disgregation of the consti- 
tuent principles of the animal fluids is constantly met with; — 
principles, the proportions of which become more and more ab- 
normal, according to the duration of the disease or the rapidity 
of its inroads. This evil appears to consist in a predominance of 
the plastic portion over the serum and the cruor of the blood. 
This lowering of the quality of the blood favours also the dcve- 
