WORKS ON GLANDERS. 
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Lafosse endeavours to prove that glanders is an inflammatory 
and local disease, whose sole seat is in the pituitary membrane, 
and that the most effectual mode of’ cure is by injection, the frontal 
sinuses having been pierced with the trephine. 
Buff bn adopted the opinion of Lafosse, and believed that one 
of the principal causes was the coldness of the water which the 
horses drank; their nostrils being so long in contact with very 
cold water, they were chilled, and a species of catarrh was pro¬ 
duced. The most effectual mode of prevention was never to give 
them cold water, but previously to take off the chill, and to dry 
their muzzles after they had drunk. This ridiculous error was 
repeated by Vitet and by Poinsinet de Sivri. 
In a second memoir, Lafosse describes seven kinds of discharge 
from the nostril. He gives the character and the cause of each, 
and proves that glanders has a peculiarity which distinguishes it 
from all the rest; and he asserts that he 'had cured a great many 
glandered horses by injections and fumigations. 
Lafosse, junior, published his treatise on Glanders in 1761. He 
develops and extends the peculiar notions of his father, and 
asserts that glanders is a disease purely local, and may be cured 
by external remedies. To support this hypothesis he affirms that 
when the viscera of the chest are affected, it is not by the true, 
but by spurious glanders; and he makes a crowd of divisions and 
subdivisions, more numerous and more mysterious than those of 
his father, and which only lead us astray from the true etiology 
of the disease. 
Lafosse, junior, says that glanders is a mucous discharge from 
the nose, with inflammation or ulceration of the pituitary mem¬ 
brane ; that the true glanders has its seat in the pituitary mem¬ 
brane, and that there is no glanders which has not its seat in that 
membrane; that true glanders alone is infectious, and that all 
other nasal discharges are free from infection. 
In page 57, he has a most singular expression: “ Although 
they who have boasted of curing glanders are either ignorant or 
dishonest, and generally both ; I must except, however, those who 
practise my mode of treatment.” 
He likewise strenuously advocated the non-contagiousness of 
glanders. He says, “ true glanders, although the most common 
of the nasal discharges, and that by which whole regiments are 
occasionally destroyed, is not contagious/’ He seems, however, 
in different parts of his work to be not quite so sure of this, and 
his language on this point is, in several instances, not a little in¬ 
consistent. 
M. Dupuis d’Emportes, in his translation of Hall’s “ Gentleman 
Cultivator,” adopts the opinions of Lafosse, senior, and enters 
into considerable details respecting the causes of glanders, the 
