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REPORTS OF CASES. 
This important phenomenon corresponds with the diminution 
in the number of the white corpuscles; it is temporary, and is 
soon followed by the formation of new hematies. 
In these circumstances, the return to its normal course ought 
to be considered as the consequence of a temporary accumulation 
of fresh elements at the time when the blood-evolutions have 
been stopped by the pathological process. This accumulation 
remains noticeable until the return of the equilibrium between the 
transformation of the hematoblasts into hematies and the produc¬ 
tion of new elements .—Academiedes Sciences. 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
TRAUMATIC LESION AS AN EXCITING CAUSE IN THE DEVELOPMENT 
OF THE SYMPTOMS OF GLANDERS. 
By A. Liautard, M.D., V.S. 
The following cases are reported as being not only interesting 
in themselves, but also as showing the influence that traumatic 
lesions may exercise in the development of the external manifes¬ 
tations of glanders. Apparently in good, health and able to per¬ 
form their duties until they were submitted to surgical operations, 
the animals in question broke under the disease but a few days 
after they were operated upon, and that without exhibiting any 
suspicious symptoms until all the manifestations had become well 
marked. Still, there were in their history points to which I think 
particular attention ought to be called, and that in similar circum¬ 
stances the practitioner will do well to bear them in mind. 
A point in the flrst case is the species of the animal and her 
previous history, which might be considered as suspicious. In the 
second, the fact of the animal coming from a stable where glan¬ 
ders had been found a month before, and in each the fact of 
their having been kept in a large stable down town, and in that 
part of the city where glandered horses are likely to be mingled 
with others whose diseased condition had been undiscovered or 
overlooked. 
