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ence is expressed as to the cause. That it is equally 

 fatal to man is proved by the deaths that take place from 

 time to time of men having become inocculated with 

 the disease through some accidental cause. The South 

 Durham Herald, of March 28th, 1874, alludes to the sad 

 fact that a miner at the Castle Eden Colliery had died 

 from blood poisoning consequent upon the introduction 

 of the virus of glanders into his system. The extract I 

 make relating to this melancholy occurrence says " That 

 Joseph Hall, a miner, washed his hands in a trough from 

 which a pony suffering from this disease had drunk, he at 

 the time having an open wound on his right hand. The 

 day following his hand was much swollen, the swelling 

 gradually increased, and in a short time his whole body 

 was a mass of corruption. He died on Wednesday morn- 

 ing. Dr. Wilson, who had attended him, gave a certifi- 

 cate that the deceased died from blood poisoning, caused 

 by inocculation from a glandered horse. The deceased 

 was only 24 years of age, and had been recently married." 

 In the same month vv T e find this note made in the 

 Veterinary Record, " A veterinary surgeon of the French 

 Army, named M. Nicoulean, had died from acute glanders, 

 the result of inocculatian while dissecting the carcase of a 

 horse which was affected with that disease. The sub- 

 maxilliary lymphatic of the animal was enlarged, and 

 the characteristic discharge and ulceration were present, 

 but the unfortunate gentleman could not trace any signs 

 of the distinctive tubercles in the pulmonary tissue not- 

 withstanding the most careful search, and in cutting the 

 mucous membrane of the nostril his knife slipped and 

 punctured his finger. Notwithstanding that every pre^ 



