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the failures in the treatment of an urethral strieture is traced to 
too strong a current being used, still they have the advantage 
over us that they can consult their patient as to the strength of 
the current. x4s the main point is to avoid any production of 
pain, therefore we must first test the strength of the current 
ourselves. 
EUROPEAN CHRONICLES. 
By Prof. Liautard, M. D., V. M. 
New Lesions in Glanders—Tracheae, Renal and 
Testicular Lesions. —It is very singular that with all that 
has already been written and all that is known of the morvo- 
faicinous affections, there should yet remain new discoveries in 
relation to some part of their history. That the lesions vary 
considerably in their appearance or locations are facts already 
well known, and the microscopic traces of the glanderous viruses, 
in their various forms, have already too often been described, and 
are sufficiently well known. Such were the facts in two very 
important cases reported by Prof. Nocard at one of the meetings 
of the Societe Centrale. 
In the first it was a horse which was affected with violent 
tacks of coUj^hin g, accompanied with vomiting efforts, when 
pus, mixed with strise of blood, were thrown out. The animal had . 
lost considerable flesh and was quite feverish. On this account 
the suspicion that morve existed could not be confirmed with the 
malleine test; but an examination of the matter thrown off re¬ 
vealed the presence of the germs of glanders. The animal was- 
destroyed, and at the post-mortem examination the lungs pre¬ 
sented multiple lesions of glanders. And, besides these, one 
which so far has not been described 5 it was a true farcinous 
lesion. 
A large cord extended alongside the whole course of the 
trachea, on its posterior face. Thick and in some places larger 
than a man’s finger, it presented here and there dilatations or 
pouches, true collections of pus, which had ulcerated through 
