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THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH 
Of this opinion Mr. Y. is one of the warmest partisans. He goes 
so far as to say, that glanders is produced more frequently by 
this cause than by any other. In his opinion this disease may 
exist for an indefinite period, without any other indication of that 
existence than a somewhat increased discharge from one or both 
nostrils, and that at first small in quantity, and not adhesive. 
It would be useless to cite the facts related by Mr. Y. 
They are of the same kind with those by which, for many a cen¬ 
tury, it has been suflSciently proved that glanders is contagious. 
The belief of this contagiousness of glanders is common to all the 
English veterinarians. Any difference of opinion among them 
has reference only to the degree and the mode of contagion. 
According to our English author, glanders cannot be com¬ 
municated by any contact of the virus with the pituitary mem¬ 
brane, unless that membrane is excoriated; but it is most fre¬ 
quently effected by means of the virus left on the manger or the 
walls, or swallowed with the solid or liquid food, there being 
some wound or erosion of the mucous membrane. 
Mr. Y. doubts whether a glandered horse was ever really 
cured by any medical treatment, nevertheless he thinks that the 
case should not be quite abandoned. As glanders is a malady 
peculiar to the stabled horse, he is of opinion that the first and 
indispensable condition of treatment is the breathing of a pure 
atmosphere, such especially as is found in the open pasture. No 
local applications will afford the slightest hope of cure, unless 
vesicatories or setons on the bones of the nose or along the 
sutures; but, in the great majority of cases, the seat of this local 
inflammation may not be within the reach of these stimuli. 
Among the tonic medicines which may possess some power, 
he recommends the sulphate of copper or of iron, dissolved in 
small quantities in the drink of the animal. 
“ Such is the opinion of our neighbours on the other side of the 
water respecting this fearful disease—so different from that of 
the French veterinarians. Then, in the presence of such a schism, 
based on such a number of contradictory facts, recorded by 
observers equally competent and careful, and by authorities 
equally unimpeachable, who of us does not feel his confidence 
