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As one of these: Does the idea of the microbian nature of 
glanders provide for the elements of a positive answer? No, 
evidently; at least, not yet. But there is much in it calculated 
to Induce further and special reflection. The experiments of 
Messrs. Bouchard, Capitan and Charrier show that the microbes 
of glanders will not grow in their special medium of culture 
while the vases containing them are excluded from the contact of 
air. Is it not, then, conclusively areobic ? 
We may then ask ourselves if the kind of selection which it 
seems to make of the organs of the respiratory apparatus, for the 
highest manifestations of its activity, is not the result of its 
physiological properties ? Would not the explanation of this 
peculiar incident of the selection for the lesions of glanders 
consist in the simple fact that the respiratory organs form, for 
this areobic microbe, a most favorable medium for development ? 
This, of course, is only a supposition, but it carries with it a 
certain truthfulness, inasmuch as it is based on positive ideas, 
known to-day, as to the nature of the microbe. * * * * * 
To resume: Two principal facts are shown in the communi¬ 
cation presented. 
The first is the confirmation of the constant presence of a 
bacillus in all the lesions of the glanders. 
The second is the experimental demonstration that this bacil¬ 
lus, isolated from the organic structure, and cultivated outside of 
it, in its appropriate culture, is invariably and exclusively the 
element of virulency of that disease, and constitutes for it its 
true characteristic .—Archives Veterinaires. 
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TREATMENT OF THE PURULENT COLLECTION OF THE SINUSES 
WITH A SOLUTION OF TAR. 
By M. Mollereatj. 
Having observed the numerous failures in the simple and 
classical treatment of these diseases, the author decided to have 
recourse, after the operation of trephining, to the washing of the 
