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fatal property of being transmitted to others. I do not pretend 
to say that every mare connected with him became diseased— 
I have not the means of knowing this ; but I do mean to say 
that all those who became diseased in this way had been covered 
by him. 
3. The symptoms during life, and the lesions observed on 
examination after death, favour the suspicion which I have 
expressed. 
4. The glanders which was developed in several of them 
renders this supposition more probable, since not only ulceration 
of the Schneiderian membrane, but caries of the bones of the 
face and the cranium, are frequently complicated with venereal 
affections in the human being. 
Some cases which occurred in 1832 give additional proba¬ 
bility to my surmise. After having covered a mare, apparently 
in good health, a stallion had many little pustular tumours 
on his penis, and particularly on the right side and the posterior 
surface of the organ. After having acquired, in the space of 
four or five days, the volume and the appearance of variolous 
pustules, they broke, and gave issue to a whitish fluid, which 
produced ulceration of every part of the mucous membrane over 
which it flowed. The suppurative process having passed, the 
pustules degenerated into ulcers, and to such a degree, that the 
penis of the horse presented posteriorly, and on the right side, 
a great number of ulcerated surfaces fully an inch in diameter. 
The mares which he covered, after the rupture of the pustules, 
had also ulcerations, but onlv on the edges of the vulva, and 
those points which could have come in contact with the ulcera¬ 
tions on the penis ; and in my opinion fully proved that there 
had been a true inoculation from the male to the female.—The 
vagina offered nothing worthy of remark. Two other stallions 
in the same stable were attacked with the same disease, but in 
a slighter degree. 
Bleeding, and lotions of a weak decoction of gentian, fre¬ 
quently repeated, were the only means enqiloyed; and a cure 
was usually effected in about eight days. In order to apply the 
lotion, it was necessary to excite erection of the penis, and the 
diseased part was immediately discovered. 
The mares were not bled; and^ in all of them the disease easily 
yielded to lotions frequently repeated. 
Keciiei/j March 1834. 
