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THE PRINCIPAL FRENCH 
will be sufficient merely to enumerate them:— Sumach; rose- 
leaves ; the leaves of the shrubby bramble (rubus fructicosus); 
wild tansy ; ivoocl strawberry; plantain; common agrimony; 
squinancy root; madder; mimomosa catechu; gum tragacanth; 
gum kino , and r hat any root . 
[To be continued.] 
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An Historical and Critical Notice of the principal 
Works that have been published on Glanders. 
Instructions et Observations sur les Maladies des Animaux 
Domestiques . Vol. II, p. 891. 
We shall not stop to report the strange ideas which writers 
have promulgated respecting this disease before the middle of the 
17th century, for we shall find nothing rational or satisfactory. 
We find only in Garsault’s translation of Snape’s Anatomy of the 
Horse some important observations, in which he combats with suc¬ 
cess the opinions of those who had preceded him, and who had 
placed the seat of glanders in the brain and the spinal chord. 
Lafosse, senior, was the first after this who wrote professedly on 
glanders. The date of his work is 1749. He says that glanders 
was unknown among the Greeks and Romans; and he cites As- 
pyrtus, Cato, Columella, and Virgil, neither of whom makes the 
slightest mention of it. He adds, that it appeared in Europe 
about the year 1494, at the siege of Naples; that Parazzez, 
who was at that siege, is the first who speaks of it; and that the 
Spanish authors, who called it muormo , have given us the earliest 
authentic description of it. 
Lafosse, however, was here in error. The fact was, he had 
not consulted the Greek authors, but copied the opinion of the 
writer of “ Geohonicorum, sive de re rustica.” Had he read the 
Greek writers, as Aspyrtus, Theomnestes, and Hippocrates, he 
would have seen that they plainly describe the disease. He would 
have found a notice of it even in Aristotle. Buffon observes of the 
Greek w T riters, that 
ass except glanders. 
The malleus humidus , morbus humidus , and profluvium atticum 
of Vegetius (an author of the existence of whom Lafosse seems 
to have been ignorant, for he never speaks of him) very much 
resemble this disease in the description which he gives of it, 
the treatment which he recommends, and the prognostic which he 
forms. 
they knew very little of any maladies in the 
