VETERINARY SCHOOL AT ALFORT. 
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Amono; the diseases that have come under notice glanders 
has, as usual, occupied the chief place. Our attempts to cure 
chronic confirmed glanders have, as heretofore, been altogether 
fruitless. There never can be a radical cure in this stage of the 
disease. The prevention of this malady should occupy the chief 
study of the veterinarian. Three cases have occurred in which it 
was evidently caused by the re-absorption of pus. 
It is a most important question, how far glanders is contagious. 
Government has yearly expended enormous sums under the 
belief that it may be contagious. All the observations which 
the Director has been enabled to make, and the documents which 
have been communicated to him by veterinarians, civil and 
military, and the information which he has obtained from exten¬ 
sive breeders, have confirmed the doubts which he has always 
entertained, in common with the majority of veterinarians, as to 
the contagiousness of this disease. A great service would be 
rendered to the country if, by means of experiments conducted 
on a large scale, this question could be set at rest. A sum of no 
great magnitude would put an end to all the incertitude, we had 
almost said those unfounded errors, which have been so injurious 
to the interests of the army and of agriculture. 
Farcy. —The more attention we pay to farcy, the more clearly 
appears its analogy with glanders. The causes, the apparent 
nature, the system which it attacks, the lesions which accom¬ 
pany it or are complicated with it, are, with few exceptions, 
the same; in addition to which is the perfect incurability of 
the malady when it has become constitutional, or when it 
attacks a part of the frame inaccessible to the cautery *or the 
knife. 
Farcy, however, often proceeds from the influence of external 
causes. We have had several instances of this in the course of 
the last year. These cases have been successfully treated by the 
division of the principal lymphatic vessels which emanate from the 
affected parts. In order, however, that the operation should be 
satisfactory, it is necessary that it should be performed before the 
ganglions to which these vessels lead become diseased ; that is to 
say, before the fluids absorbed and transmitted by these glands 
have entered in too great quantity into the circulating mass. 
Among many cases to this effect, we will glance at two only. 
These animals had been for some time affected with a farcied 
engorgement, and with eruption and ulceration of buttons or buds 
on the hind limbs. During two or three days the ganglions of the 
groin had been very much tumefied, and the horses had been 
evidently and considerably uneasy. As these aniinuls secincd 
