TRANSLATIONS FROM CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
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professor at the Veterinary School at Brussels, has had 
ample opportunities presented to him, and having carefully 
observed many cases, is of opinion that at least one third 
of the horses which are slaughtered for glanders are not 
glandered: further, they are susceptible of a cure being 
effected. Also, that all those cases which are designated as 
chronic glanders, might at the beginning have been nothing 
more than a benign simple local affection, and which only 
becomes serious by its duration and the absorption of the 
virus. These might be easily cured at the commencement 
by proper treatment, in the same manner as syphilis, before 
the virulent matter had become absorbed. Of all the affec¬ 
tions of the nasal cavities which have resisted the treatment, 
are those in which the mucous membrane has already 
assumed a leaden hue, striated with a bluish red, which is 
caused by the veins being gorged with blood, becoming en¬ 
larged, and consequently more apparent. This appearance 
is indicative of true glanders, and is consequently incurable. 
Is not this peculiar aspect of the membrane the first symp¬ 
tom that the disease has invaded the system generally, it 
having extended to the vascular tissue, which is distributed 
over the whole system, and thus speedily the morbific virus 
is carried to every point of the body? Are these signs 
those of phlebitis? or are they not concomitant with those 
conditions which, when an acrid matter has accumulated in 
an organ highly vascular, would be productive of malignant 
phlebitis ? At the same time an alteration of the blood is 
taking place, and then, like all other malignant or septic 
diseases, it has very little chance of being cured, and speedily 
terminates in death. 
This ingenious interpretation, the writer states, belongs to 
his colleague, M. Husson. By it we are able to account for 
those facts which we have always observed, viz., the im¬ 
possibility of a cure being effected w hen the cyanous aspect 
of the mucous membrane was present, and also the frequent 
curability of the case when that appearance w T as wanting. 
Professor Delwart does not pretend to cure glanders, but 
only those affections of the nasal cavities where the mucous 
membrane has not, with the ulcers, acquired the leaden hue 
above mentioned, which he considers indicates true glanders. 
His method is trephining the maxillary and frontal sinuses. 
This operation was introduced first by Lafosse, sen., for the 
cure of glanders, but the little success obtained from it had 
caused it to be almost forgotten ; however, by this opera¬ 
tion the nasal cavities can be effectually explored, so as to 
find the seat of the morbid secretion, the ulcerations of the 
