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however, be misunderstood—we refer to glanders, plainly and 
palpably developed, and not to those slight engorgements of the 
submaxillary ganglions, and those ephemeral discharges from the 
nostril, which are curable by the most simple means, and of which, 
from their apparent resemblance to glanders, charlatans take advan¬ 
tage to impose upon the public, and to establish the belief that a 
cure has at length been discovered for this incurable disease. 
Our experience is fully confirmed by that of the military infir¬ 
mary of Amirault, and of the committee to inquire into the pro¬ 
ceedings, of which Renault was a member. 
It is more than two years since that infirmary was established 
by the minister of war for the very purpose of experimenting on 
the treatment of this disease. An appeal was made to all those 
who, in good or bad faith, pretended to be able to cure this dreadful 
malady. A great number of them answered to the appeal, and 
horses that had been pronounced by the commissioners to be mani¬ 
festly glandered were put under their care. Not one of them was 
able to demonstrate, we will not say the constant efficacy of his 
mode of treatment, but the slightest advantage did not appear to 
result from that of which he had previously related wonders. 
Thencelt has happened, that the prudent, soi-disant, curers of glan¬ 
ders begin to be not a little fearful of compromising themselves ; 
and, whatever else they may do, they hesitate to expose them¬ 
selves to the dangerous surveillance of the commission of Ami¬ 
rault. 
As to “ Farcy,” although it has, like glanders, assumed a 
peculiarly untractable character during the whole of this year, yet 
it has been successfully treated in almost every case in Avhich it 
has appeared under the form of circumscribed buttons or isolated 
cords without any febrile phenomena, and in young and healthy 
horses; but we have almost constantly failed when farcy has 
attacked any considerable portion of the surface—when the animal 
has begun to lose flesh—when the patient has been old and 
debilitated—and when a low febrile affection has accompanied 
or followed the development of the complaint. 
It appears from the experience of our school, and also from the 
correspondence which the Director has held with a great many 
veterinary surgeons in the different departments of France, that 
the mortality of glanders and farcy has considerably increased 
during the last few years, and especially in the establishments of the 
coach proprietors; but the cause of this is probably to be traced to 
the excessive fatigue and complete exhaustion which is the inevit¬ 
able consequence of the labour that is imposed on these horses. 
The industry of the country appears to be almost daily more 
and more developed. IMore rapid corninunication between the 
