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have observed the existence of these organisms, not only in the 
parts exposed to the air, such as the nasal ulcerations and pul¬ 
monary abscesses, but also in structures not exposed—glands, the 
spleen and the liver. 
The constant presence of these organisms, presenting always 
the same characters, was a supposition in favor of the pathologi¬ 
cal part, they may play in the production of the disease. To 
demonstrate that it really belongs to them, it was necessary to re¬ 
produce glanders in the animal, and especially in the donkey, b} 7 
inoculating their microbes alone, developed outside of the diseased 
organism, and without being mixed with other particles coming 
from the body of the-glandered animal. It was then necessary 
to proceed by the mode of successive cultures. 
The authors have succeeded in obtaining the multiplication of 
the microbes of the glandrous products of man, horse and guinea- 
pigs in neutralized solutions of extracts of meat, placed in ovens at 
temperature of 37°. 
Through successive cultures, they obtained the development of 
the microbe free of all mixture to the eighth culture. The 
growth was not obtained in vases opened to the air. 
Preliminary experiments have shown them that the first and 
second cultures retained the virulent property of the pus of 
glanders. 
Glanders produced in guinea-pigs by the inoculation of cul¬ 
tures, was absolutely alike, anatomically speaking, to that produced 
in the same animal by products taken directly from the horse. 
Glanders, then, seems to be the second virulent disease of 
man whose parasitic nature is proved. This being so far demon¬ 
strated only for anthrax, amongst the virulent diseases to which 
man is subject .—Academie de Medecine. 
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FRACTURE OF THE NAVICULAR BONE IN A HIND LEG. 
By M. Mollereau. 
The subject was an English horse, which became suddenly lame 
when at work, harnessed to a coupe. The animal is in great pain; 
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