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cerations, nasal discharge, or tumefied glands, to indicate its pres- 

 ence. 



The autopsy developed the presence of pulmonary and constitu- 

 tional glanders.* 



2. This is a most remarkable and instructive case. A family 

 lived over a stable, with steps leading dosvn from the tenement by 

 the stable-door. The mother had an infant at the breast, and one 

 day, when taking it down to give it fresh air, a horse which was 

 being led out snorted and blew some discharge from its nostrils into 

 the child's face. The child was taken ill, and glanders diagnosed. 

 An elder sister, who was in condition to act as wet-nurse, one day 

 took the child to nurse ; she had excoriated nipples, and some of the 

 discharge from the child's nose probably came in contact with them. 

 Both child and sister died from glanders. f 



3. A young man purchased a glandered horse at Detroit, Michi- 

 gan, not knowing what it was. He contracted the disease and 

 died. 



The Massachusetts State Board of Health have recorded thirteen 

 cases of glanders, between the years 1859 and 1875, in that State. 



Cases of the transmission of glanders from man to man have 

 been reported ; one where a family of man, wife, and four children 

 all became diseased from sleeping in the same bed with the father. 

 Predisposition. — It can, in general, be said to be very small, 

 when we consider the frequent occasions offered to infection to those 

 whose business brings them among such horses. 



In general, glanders among human beings may be said to be a 

 " calling " disease ; that is, occurring among the above-named classes. 

 Of the 106 cases collected by Bollinger — 

 41 were grooms. 



11 coachmen, teamsters, and riders. 

 14 horse-owners and farmers. 

 10 veterinarians and veterinary students. 

 6 knackers. 

 6 horse-butchers. 

 5 soldiers. 

 4 doctors. 

 3 gardeners. 

 2 horse-dealers. 



1 each in a policeman, shepherd, smith, and an anatomy serv- 

 ant at a veterinary school. 



* " Mittheilung an d. Praxis ini Preussischen Staate," lS79-'80. 

 \ " Veterinary Journal," vol. ix, p. 144. 



