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lopment of glanders, but it then appears under a chronic form. 
Alter some general considerations respecting farcy, the author 
proceeds to describe the symptoms and organic lesions which 
characterise each variety of glanders. 
Chapter 5th describes the treatment. 
In the history of any disease the treatment of it is always the 
most important part, for the end which all wish to attain is to 
effect a cure. M. Berger is not in this respect any further ad- 
vanced than his brethren ; but, more modest and candid than many 
of them, he frankly confesses his inability to point out any mode 
of treatment, by means of which all the varieties of glanders and 
farcy may be conquered. He can, like many other veterinary 
surgeons, cite several cases of a perfect cure being effected, but 
none of these have been the result of any specific course of treat- 
ment. It appears to us that the author attaches too great an 
importance to the disappearance of the glands of the throat. 
With regard to the treatment of farcy, he particularly recom- 
mends cauterization, and, above all, extirpation of the buds, the 
cords, and farcy tumours. This is coming back to Chabert’s 
practice. After these violent remedies, he would have recourse 
to various medicaments, as that of Terrat , and the ointment of 
Lebas, and the common blister ointment, &c. 
Chapter the 6th treats of contagion. 
In this chapter, a great part of which is composed of cases 
extracted from the works of MM. Dupuy, Delafond, and Leblanc, 
M. Berger, in the first place, discusses the contagiousness of 
chronic glanders and farcy. He passes in review all that the 
French authors have written on this subject — states their various 
opinions, the observations they have collected — the experiments 
they have made — remarks on the value of their records, and, after 
all, speaks of them as one who does not believe in contagion. 
He concludes by narrating several cases that have^come under 
his personal knowledge, and that tend to support the opinion 
which he entertains. 
He next proceeds to enter into the same question as it relates 
to acute glanders and farcy, commencing with that intermediate 
form of the disease which constitutes the termination of chronic 
glanders. This portion of the work, aa well as that relating to 
the contagiousness of acute glanders, properly so called, is only 
a repetition of what M. Delafond has already published on the 
same subject. As to the contagiousness of gangrenous glanders, 
M. Berger is of opinion that there is much yet to be learned on 
that point. 
The author then proceeds to enter upon that most important 
question, the contagiousness of glanders as regards the human race , 
or whether it can be communicated from the horse to the man. 
