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ON GLANDERS IN MAN, &C. 
presents itself, of putting an end to all incertitude about the matter, 
and all the irresolution of the administration, which cannot he pro¬ 
longed without being prejudicial to the interests of the army, and 
the safety and health of the people generally. 
Rec. cle VH. Med., March 1840. 
We have great pleasure in inserting this joint production of 
MM. Breschet and Rayer. They stand first among the French 
medical men for the attention which they have paid to this dreadful 
disease, and they are nobly leading the way to that correct view 
of its cause and its propagation, the abandonment of which by so 
many of the continental pathologists we have never been able to 
comprehend. 
Some of our readers will perhaps think that we have preserved 
rather too much of the pathologico-anatomical narration of these 
gentlemen, but such will not be the case with the majority of 
them. Circumstances of a very painful nature may render us 
most anxious to be perfectly masters of every symptom which this 
horrible disease exhibits in the human being and the brute, and 
its strangely peculiar complications. We likewise owe something 
to these gentlemen for the kind and high consideration which they 
yield to the veterinary surgeon ; while some talented and eminent 
men of the medical profession in our own country do not deem us 
worthy to constitute even a minority at that meeting where we 
think some of us have a right to appear, and where we should he 
proudest of all to be seen,—the Examiners’ Board. 
While our translation of this memoir was at the press, we saw 
in the London Medical Gazette an Essay on Farcy and Glanders 
b}^ our talented and valued friend and co-editor, Mr. Percivall. It 
is like his other productions. It places the subject on which he 
is treating in the plainest and most interesting point of view. It 
gives us the theory of farcy and glanders as it will, ere long, be 
received by the continental as well as the English veterinarian. 
There is considerable difference of opinion between him and the 
French pathologist; but on many an important point it is interest¬ 
ing to observe how closely they approximate to each other. 
Y. 
