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loose, indefinite, and altogether useless literature—literature 
solely intended to bring the writers into notice. 
We in Scotland have been called upon to buy and read 
vade rnecums, treatises, veterinary reviews, with many other 
works of a similar class, all of which, however, are destitute 
of any practical value to the agriculturist or the veterinary 
surgeon, being written by men who either have no knowledge 
of their own to communicate, or no discrimination to cull the 
most useful parts of other men’s writings. 
Yours, &c. 
To the 'Editors of c The Veterinarian? 
Facts and Observations. 
DIAGNOSIS OF GLANDERS. 
M. Bouley, the eminent professor at the Veterinary School 
of Alfort, near Paris, lately made several eloquent speeches at 
the Academy of Medicine in support of a peculiar symptom 
of glanders, looked upon by him as pathognomonic. This 
symptom is a small ulceration on the mucous membrane of 
one of the nostrils. Amongst the arguments and facts 
brought forward, the following anecdote was related:—About 
ten years ago, the buyer and seller of a valuable horse brought 
the animal to be examined at the school, the seller being ac¬ 
companied by his veterinary surgeon. The buyer was afraid 
the horse might have the glanders, as there was a rather 
abundant secretion from one nostril; the seller of course 
contending that this was a symptom of mere catarrh. M. 
Bouley examined the horse, and, having stretched the nostril, 
saw on the mucous membrane a small ulceration, of the size 
of a pin’s head, and forthwith pronounced the horse affected 
with glanders. The veterinary surgeon, who was by far M. 
Bouley’s senior, scouted the idea of such a thing; and after 
much discussion, it was agreed that the animal should be 
killed, and that the seller should refund the money if the 
horse were found to have glanders. M. Bouley encouraged 
the buyer to risk this, being sure that his diagnosis was 
correct. The horse was killed, and at the autopsy it was 
found that glanders really existed. In fact, all the usual 
alterations were observed, such as ulcerations in the upper 
part of the nostril, pus in the sinuses, tubercles and abscesses 
in the lungs, &c. Still, this horse looked perfectly healthy, 
