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been given by the professor, and that have been visited by the 
pupils, amounts to 2143. 
Of the diseases that were treated in the hospital, we content 
ourselves with noting the following :— 
Glanders. —We have had about the same number of glan- 
dered horses as in the last year ; and we must repeat, that, in 
spite of all the care that has been bestowed upon them, and the 
strict attention which has been paid to the administration of 
medicines the most likely to have good effect, and the power of 
which has been vaunted by others, we are not able to relate a sin¬ 
gle case of the complete cure of chronic glanders. 
Seven horses were returned to their owners apparently cured— 
all the recognizable symptoms of the disease had disappeared; 
six of them were, after some months, returned to us more 
decidedly glandered than before : they were destroyed. The 
seventh has now been away three months; but we reckon upon 
seeing him again about the same time as the others, and in the 
same state as that in which they returned. 
As to horses in which glanders is beginning to appear, there is 
no doubt that they may be treated with fair hope of success. 
They must be withdrawn from the influence of the general or 
peculiar causes of this disease ; and then a good constitution in 
the horse, and rigorous attention to diet, appear to us to be the 
conditions of cure. The medicines which are generally employed 
are more injurious than beneficial. 
Experiments ought to be made on a grand scale in order to 
determine the contagiousness of this disease. If glanders is con¬ 
tagious, the sanitary measures that have been opposed to it are 
altogether insufficient, or have been very negligently observed ; 
or, if it is not contagious, it is deplorable to see so many horses 
lost from certain exciting causes, of which the public ought to 
be made fully aware. 
If glanders is, strictly speaking, non-contagious, and which is 
our opinion, it ought to be demonstratively proved; for it is noto¬ 
rious that the greater part of the proprietors of horses, and of the 
commanders of regiments, attributing the ravages of glandeis to 
contagion, either principally or alone, neglect to withdraw their 
horses from that kind of influence, and do not inquire into those 
errors in the food and management of these animals, which are 
the true causes of its production. A mischievous error this, 
which costs the country many a good horse every year. 
Farcy.— Like glanders, with which it has so much analogy 
both in its nature and its causes, farcy is often incurable, when 
it appears at the same time on many ])arts of the frame ; conse¬ 
quently, if it can be so rarely combatted with success, it is to 
