REPORT OF THP: FRENCH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 713 
M. Jacob treats on the contagious property of acute glanders, a 
somewhat new doctrine in France, but the frequent occurrence of 
which he maintains, although he still believes that sound horses 
may occasionally be placed with those that are decidedly glandered 
without becoming infected. 
M. Vailot sent an account of a horse said to be an hermaphrodite. 
M. Cros relates five cases of blain in the ox, and one in which 
he supposes, wrongly, that this disease was propagated from the ox 
to the dog. 
M. Marsal is sanguine with regard to the cure of glanders. His 
principal remedies are bleeding and setons. 
M. Santin contributes a memoir on the tumours which appear 
on the knees of cattle, and particularly on those of cows. M. Gi¬ 
rard says, that his remarks are sensible and judicious, and of so 
much the more importance, as the nature and cure of these tumours 
are strangely misunderstood. 
M. Santin sends a second contribution on scirrhous enlargement 
of the prostate gland in cattle, a disease which has been often con¬ 
founded with retention of urine from calculi, and inflammation of 
the bladder. He affirms that this affection is incurable, and ad¬ 
vises the immediate slaughter of the animal. 
A third paper is contributed by the same zealous veterinarian, 
in which he asks whether the horse, the ass, and the mule are the 
only animals in which glanders is spontaneously produced. He 
says that, instead of attempting to resolve this important question, 
the attention of the veterinary surgeon has been confined to the 
attempt at discovering a cure. The commissioners perfectly agree 
with him, that it is high time to inquire what it is that disposes 
him, and him almost alone, to the ravages of this disease. The 
nature and cause of this predisposition being once discovered, a 
considerable step would probably be taken towards a cure. 
M. Mazure relates a case of eventration in a young mare, and is 
complimented for the simple but scientific way in which the pro¬ 
cess of returning and confining the intestines was conducted. 
M. Dard communicates a long and most valuable paper on the 
prejudicial effects of low and humid pastures on cattle of all kinds. 
This is a subject often treated on, but he has placed many parts 
of it in a new and very important point of view. He particularly 
traces a connexion between the deleterious influence of these locali¬ 
ties, and diseases of the eyes, and eventual blindness. Not merely 
simple inflammation of the visual organs is produced, but that spe¬ 
cific and hereditary affection, to whose destructive agency, in the 
common management of the horse, there seems to be no bounds. 
One fact, however, he states, which deserves to be generally known,— 
colts born of parents of an acknowledged predisposition to blindness. 
