VETERINARY SCHOOL AT ALFORT. 
We will collect some of the interesting facts which our infirma¬ 
ries have witnessed during the last year.^ 
Glanders. —This year, as in most of the preceding ones, the 
horses affected with glanders, that w 7 ere sent to the hospital, 
were numerous; and, in spite of the care which was bestowed 
upon them, and of the most minute attention to the means t at 
appeared most rational, and that had been boasted o y 
others as the most efficacious, we cannot bring foiwaid a sing e 
case of complete cure after the animal had presented the charac¬ 
ters of confirmed chronic glanders. Two only were returned to 
their owners'that seemed to be cured : there was no longer dis¬ 
charge from the nostril; the enlargement of the glands under the 
jaw had almost entirely disappeared ; and white, thick, ray-like 
cicatrices had replaced the ulcerations of the pituitary membiane. 
A little time afterwards these horses were brought back to the 
School, discharging as abundantly and the glands as enlaiged as 
at their first coming; and, a circumstance very remaikable, hav¬ 
ing ulcerations in the middle of the apparently fibious tissue 
which constituted the cicatrices of the first chancies. . 
At the same time, many horses, that had been biougnt into 
our infirmary when glanders was just commencing, weie re¬ 
turned in good health, after a residence among us rnoie or less 
prolonged. These were horses of strong constitution, and on 
which we either observed a slight discharge with a consideia- 
bly enlarged gland, or glands very little enlaiged with a veiy 
abundant discharge. 
Ulcerations of the nasal membrane have always seemed to be 
susceptible of cicatrization when they were accessible to the 
cautery, and were not accompanied by enlarged glands, 01 dis¬ 
charge. , 
Nasal Haemorrhages, preceding or accompanying evident glan¬ 
ders, have been frequent this year. . . , 
Acute Glanders. — Some facts, observed in the hospita.1, 
have convinced Messieurs Renault and Delafond that a veiy rapid 
disorganization of the mucous membrane of the nose, and whip 
is almost alw ; ays complicated with a malady improperly desig¬ 
nated under the title of mal de tete de contagion , has been im¬ 
properly confounded with acute glanders. In acute gtandeis, 
either there are old ulcers, which all at once spread lapidly an 
destroy the membrane through a greater or less portion of its 
extent, and in which case it succeeds to chronic glanders; or 
it appears at once under an acute type, and then pustules, moie 
or less prominent, develop themselves on the mucous membrane 
of the nose, and are speedily replaced by ulcers, the pi ogress of 
which is exceedingly rapid. In both these cases the pituitaiy 
