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in his former theories a little shaken? For myself, I acknow- 
ledo;e that I have never been able to form a decided judgment on 
this affair. I have always asked myself, if there did not result 
from these contrary facts and opinions two different considera¬ 
tions, with regard to which we reasoned as if there was but one 
question only to be determined ? Whether under the term glan¬ 
ders, different diseases were not included, some of which were 
contagious, and others not so ; or whether the same malady 
could not occasionally wear these two characters, according to 
certain conditions and circumstances which we are unable to 
explain ? 
The question will never be satisfactorily determined, until 
we have agreed, and with the utmost precision, on the characters 
of true glanders. 
“ I am assured by all parties, that acute mange is highly con¬ 
tagious. I will not deny it; yet I will state some facts which 
are inconsistent with that opinion. 
In 1832 a young horse was sent to us by M. Vallex, veteri¬ 
nary surgeon, who could not keep him in his own stable be¬ 
cause he had acute glanders and farcy, and to such a degree 
that he died in three days. He was placed in the same stable 
with the horses destined to undergo various operations. Next to 
him stood a grey horse, into whose nostrils I caused to be intro¬ 
duced a large pledget of tow, saturated with the red ichorous 
matter which escaped from the nose of his neighbour. After 
some days, the pledget was withdrawn, and in the situation which 
it occupied I observed a black ulceration, similar to those which 
had existed in the other horse—every other part of the Schnei¬ 
derian membrane retaining its natural healthy hue. The ulcer 
was left to take its course, and it gradually healed like an ordi¬ 
nary wound. The horse was kept a considerable time, but 
he seemed to preserve his full health, and had not even chronic 
glanders. 
“ In a shed near the forge, and occasionally used as a stable 
for the old and condemned horses, and where they were often 
loose, and mingling among each other pell-mell (pele-mtle)y our 
pupils may have seen for more than two months a little horse, 
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