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MISCELLANEA. 
easy for the stable to be thoroughly cleansed from time to time. 
Then alone, brother officers, shall we have ground to hope that 
we shall no longer see our best horses perishing before they have 
rendered the state service, and that the Government will no longer 
purchase them only to lose them. 
DES Bourdeliers, 
Captain of the Ninth Chasseurs.’^ 
We cordially agree with the author of the above document, and 
which we most readily publish. We unite with him in demand¬ 
ing the adoption of measures like those which he has described, 
in order that the frightful mortality which, beyond all comparison 
with what is observed in the armies of other countries, prevails 
in the French cavalry may be staid. It is calculated that the 
Prussian and the Wurtemburgh cavalry are remounted once in 
fourteen years; while a seventh part of our horses are destroyed 
by glanders every year. If this improvement is scientifically 
and honestly carried on, the expenses which may attend it, let 
them be as great as they will, will speedily appear to be the 
exercise of the truest economy. 
Let us hope that the commission alluded to will be fully con¬ 
scious of the importance of the task which it is appointed to 
execute, and a new sera will commence for the poor cavalry-horse, 
hitherto so shamefully maltreated in France.—A. de M. 
Journal des Haras, Juin 1838. 
Our Forefathers* Opinions.—Farcy, 
Is an inflammatory state of the blood, gradually increasing to 
the greatest pitch of acrimony, and affecting the system by 
degrees, till the whole mass is corrupted. Although the attack 
may be local, the course being inflammatory, it must soon be 
universal, from the very nature of the circulation. 
From a MS. of the last Century. 
Splent. 
A SPLENT is an enlargement of the membrane covering the 
bone. By a rupture of the small vessels the fluid collected 
becomes ossified, and constitutes a bony substance. 
Ibid. 
