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of Glanders. He, too, acknowledges the honour they have done 
him, and the perfect accuracy with which his opinions have been 
stated. 
M. Bernard, the editor of the Journal des Vtlerinaires du Midi, 
has gone farther. He has certainly given a much more abridged 
account of these lectures ; but he has appended some remarks of 
his own, and characterized by so much candour as well as good 
sense, that the editor of The Veterinarian begs to give, with 
one or two exceptions, an almost literal translation of them, and 
without one critical remark. The cause is before the proper tri¬ 
bunal, and to its decision all parties must bow. 
May this intercourse, honourable to all concerned, long con¬ 
tinue ! The time will not then be far distant when we may say 
of our noble art what Lamartine says of genius, that it 
Par les nuag'es de Penvie 
Marche lon^-tems environn4: 
Mais au terme da la carriere 
Des dots de I’indigne poussifere 
II sort vainqueur et couronn^.’’ 
M. Bernard had been enumerating the various causes of glan¬ 
ders as stated by Mr. Youatt, and he thus continues:—There 
are two which seem to me to deserve the greatest attention. 
The first is hereditary predisposition. ‘‘This doctrine,” says he, 
“ that there is scarcely a disease which does not run in the stock, 
is gaining new advocates every day.” In proof of this Mr. Y. 
cites the fact reported by M. Dupuy, of a mare that died glan- 
dered, and in whose progeny, through the two next generations, 
the disease occurred without any known communication or cause: 
and when he coupled this with the fact that the county of Tip¬ 
perary was over-run by the blind progeny of Chanticleer, himself 
blind, and that it took many a year to eradicate the roaring with 
which Major Wilson’s horse had infected the breed of horses in 
another part of the country, he occupied a ground from which he 
cannot be dislodged. We may add to this the introduction of 
melanosis, brought from Normandy by a grey stallion into the 
department of I’Ain, where it was previously unknown. 
“ Another and most frequent cause of glanders is contagion. 
