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to require not one day of rest, and that nine times out of ten the 
cure is obtained by a simple operation, consisting of a transversal 
groove towards the upper third of the hoof—nothing more. 
This groove is made with the drawing knife, right across the 
crack (quarter, toe or sand crack), about one inch long and half 
an inch wide (or three centimeters long and one wide). It is made 
down to the keraphyllous structure, which may also require to be 
divided. It is suggested that other simple surgical means which 
may present themselves in the case must not be neglected. 
Hoof ointments are recommended, but baths are objectionable. 
Sawdust bedding for the fore feet is advantageous .—Recueilde 
Medecine Veterinaire. 
PATHOLOGICAL PHYSIOLOGY. 
UPON THE CULTURE OF THE MICROBE OF GLANDERS AND UPON 
THE TRANSMISSION OF THE DISEASE BY THE LIQUIDS OF 
CULTURE. 
By Messrs. Bouchard, Capitan and Charrier.* 
The great and important theory which defines contagion as a 
“ function of a living element,” under whatsoever form it may be 
manifested, as well in the vegetable as the animal kingdom, has 
received fresh and powerful confirmation from the researches into 
the nature of glanders as reported by Professor Bouchard, and 
his collaborators, Messrs. Capitan and Charrier, in a communi¬ 
cation forwarded by them through Professor Brouardel before 
the Academy of Medicine on the 27th of December last. 
Indeed, it is there conclusively demonstrated that glanders^ 
must from the present time, and without further question, held its 
place in the category of microbian diseases. Its microbe has been 
seen, isolated, cultivated in its proper media, and recognized as an 
active virulent element, after a series of successive cultures, the 
virulent matter having been taken directly from the lesions proper 
to glanders, and inoculated by natural methods into susceptible 
organisms. 
The proof is complete. The microbe alone , freed from all 
* Report of Mr. Bouley before the Academy of Medicine of Paris. 
