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hydrophobia, we have long ascertained that the 

 small-pox owes its origin to the camel, as the cow- 

 pox is obtained from the cow. The question, how- 

 ever, is at length set at rest. A paper from the pen 

 of Dr. Elliotson, the President, was read to the 

 Medical and Chirurgical Society, on the 12th March, 

 1833, (which will be found at page 201 of the Trans- 

 actions of that Society, published by Longman,) in 

 which the learned author describes the recent case of 

 William Johnson, a patient in St. Thomas' Hospital. 

 The symptoms not only corresponded with those of a 

 glandered horse, but on a post mortem examination, 

 the appearances were similar. The sufferer had been 

 employed as a groom in attending a horse laboring 

 under the disease, and had frequently received the 

 discharge from the nostril on his hand, which had 

 been wounded. This fact was discovered after sus- 

 picion had been excited by the nature of the symp- 

 toms. Without going at length into the character 

 of those symptoms, it may be interesting to my read- 

 ers to have a general account of them. For the first 

 week they were febrile, attended with pains in the 

 right side and loins, and with delirium, at times, to a 

 violent degree. Before a fortnight had elapsed, the 



