ROYAL AND CENTRAL SOCIKTY OF AGRICULTURE. 51 I 
M. Pepin, second veterinary surgeon to the fourth regiment of 
artillery, has forwarded a manuscript containing two essays, the 
one on the mineral waters of Bareges, and the other on the horses 
belonging to the valley in which that village is situated. M. 
Pepin narrates two cases of glanders, both of which, he asserts, 
were cuied in 1840, by the animals being suffered to drink no- 
thing but water taken from those springs, and the temperature of 
which was 20° (79° Fah.) The author minutely describes all the 
changes which were perceptible in the symptoms of disease during 
the course of treatment, which was begun in the early part of 
June. In one month the animals were considered to be conva- 
lescent, and returned to their work, and M. Pepin being com- 
pelled to leave Bareges, saw no more of them : but in one of 
the four certificates which are attached to this manuscript, M. le 
docteur Ballard, head surgeon to the military hospital at Bour- 
deaux, who assisted in the attendence on these two cases, and 
who remained at Bareges until the 1st of October, states that he 
frequently saw these two mares gallop up the steep road which 
leads from Luy to Bareges; that he examined their nostrils, and 
was unable to perceive the slightest abnormal fluxion. 
Four certificates, drawn up with all the formalities necessary 
to prove their authenticity, attest the truth of the ca^es narrated 
by M. Pepin. 
In a letter accompanying his work, this gentleman informs the 
society, that the essay which he forwarded last year was also sent 
to the minister of war, with a request that the means and autho- 
rity might be granted to enable him to carry on his experiments 
on a large scale, in order that the results may become still more 
conclusive. His request was granted, and M. Pepin received 
an order to proceed from Douay to Bareges, and to experiment 
on all the glandered horses furnished by the garrisons of Auch 
and Tarbes. All preparations were made, all orders given, all 
local arrangements completed, and M. Pepin was at his post, 
when a sudden and unlooked-for opposition, which it was impos- 
sible to overcome, prevented his intended experiments. This 
opposition was conducted by the inspector of the waters, who 
pretended that the horses brought there to be experimented on 
would bring glanders into the valley, where they asserted, but 
falsely, that it was unknown. To this it was added, that the fear 
of glanders would drive away all the bathers. M. Pepin in vain 
endeavoured to convince him that the arrangements he had made 
were such as would prevent the animals under experiment from 
coming in contact with any others, and, to do away with the fear 
respecting the transmission of glanders from the horse to the 
human being, he offered to sleep in the stables which contained 
the patients during the whole period they were experimented on. 
