514 IMPROVEMENT OF THE VETERINARY PROFESSION. 
such a board, or it will give existence to other schools, more 
efficient, and which would stimulate the old one to do its duty. 
In either case, good would result. Improve the education of the 
veterinary pupil. Expose the abuses of the St. Pancras school, 
and especially use your powerful influence to promote the deci¬ 
sive step to which I have referred. 
An Old Veterinary Surgeon. 
IS GLANDERS CONTAGIOUS? 
This very important question is far from being set at rest 
among English veterinarians. The veterinary surgeon, and the 
proprietor of horses, is deeply interested in it. We invite our cor¬ 
respondents to the consideration of it, and the communication of 
their experience; and, in the mean time, we give the result of 
some experiments made at the veterinary school at Alfort. They 
are recorded in the “ Recueil de Medecine Veterinaire,” June 
1829: — 
A horse, with cough and affection of the chest, and two setons 
inserted in the chest, and in active discharge, and the membrane 
of the nostril presenting light red streaks, was placed in a shed 
with three glandered horses seven months and a day. 
A mare, with two setons in the chest for a similar affection, was 
placed with two glandered horses during three months and 
twenty-four days. 
A mare, remained with a glandered horse during three months 
and seventeen days. 
A horse was placed with two others, glandered, during two 
months and eleven days. 
A mare was loose in the same stable with seven glandered 
horses, for eight months and twenty days. 
A horse lived with five others, glandered, during ten months 
and three days. 
A horse was in the same stall with a glandered horse three 
months and five days. 
A mare was placed with a glandered horse two months and 
four days. 
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