DURING THE SCHOLASTIC YEAR 1838-9. 
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our hospital in the interior of whose veins some purulent deposits 
had formed and opened, and both of whom died a few days after¬ 
wards of acute glanders. 
It is, then, evident that, without any other cause, acute glan¬ 
ders may be developed in debilitated subjects in whose sys¬ 
tem a long and abundant suppuration had infused or infiltrated its 
poison. 
A second result from a variety of experiments, made by us and 
a great number of other veterinarians, is, that chronic glanders 
cannot be communicated from one horse to another, even by ino¬ 
culation. Then, if even inoculation will not communicate chronic 
glanders from one horse to another individual of the same species, 
is it likely that simple cohabitation, or that any transient contact, 
will transmit it to an individual of so different a species as man ? 
The same induction follows from that which we have alreadv 
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stated of the harmlessness of the simple cohabitation of horses 
affected with acute glanders, with those that are sound. MM. Re¬ 
nault and Bouley propose to multiply their experiments on this last 
point. 
Finally, in order by every possible experiment to settle the ques¬ 
tion of the transmissibility of mange from the horse to man, these 
Professors, after having proved by two different trials that the 
glanders of the human being could be transmitted to the horse by 
inoculation, have wished to assure themselves whether, in the same 
way, the glanders of the horse could be transmitted to other ani¬ 
mals. With this view they have, for the first time that such expe¬ 
riments have been attempted, inserted the matter of acute glanders 
taken from the horse into the cheeks dr different parts of the body 
of a sheep, a pig, and a dog. After a more or less considerable in¬ 
flammation and suppuration around the wounds, cicatrization took 
place, and the animals were in no other w'ay affected. 
The same experiment was repeated about twenty days afterwards 
on another sheep, dog, and pig, with the matter running from the 
nostril of a horse labouring under acute glanders. The result was 
precisely the same, except that the wound and the local swelling 
produced by the inoculation on the face of the sheep have not quite 
disappeared. If other experiments of this kind which Messrs. 
Renault and Bouley propose to make should be attended by the 
same results, shall we not be justified in expressing our surprise 
that simple cohabitation, or the usual concern which a man may 
have with one or more horses affected with chronic glanders, should 
become the occasional cause of acute glanders in him, when inocu¬ 
lation with the virus of that malady on different parts of an animal 
so debile as the sheep, so much resembling the horse in his organ¬ 
ization, and herbivorous like him, could not communicate it, al¬ 
though it was twice attempted; and when, also, it had so little 
