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meant, not the equine disease in the equine subject properly so 

 called, and which comes so frequently under the treatment of the 

 veterinary surgeon, but the same frightful disease when introduced 

 either by accident or design into the human system. Is it curable 1 

 This is the question, and the general impression seems to be, that 

 when it once fairly lays hold of the human system, it is, like 

 hydrophobia, quite and utterly incurable. We do not pretend to 

 know anything of the subject, and we allude to it merely to say 

 that we well recollect of hearing, on undoubted authority, of a 

 patient who was actually cured of glanders, caught, if we remember 

 rightly, from eating some beans found in a manger in which a 

 horse having the disease had recently been feeding. All the 

 circumstances connected with the case and cure were related in 

 our hearing by the late Dr. John Eeid, Professor of Anatomy 

 in the University of St. Andrews, one evening that we dined at his 

 house during our attendance at the University. It is now some 

 eighteen or twenty years ago, and we were then too young and 

 thoughtless to give that attention to the subject which it deserved. 

 We recollect, however, that the case was said to have occurred in 

 Edinburgh, and to have been treated in the infirmary of that city, 

 and that the patient, on his recovery, having been found shrewd, 

 intelligent, and steady, was afterwards appointed one of the janitors 

 of that institution. There must be some medical gentleman still 

 in Edinburgh able to speak to a case of such importance ; and 

 amongst others present on the occasion that we heard Professor 

 Eeid refer to it, were, if we rightly remember, Principal Sir 

 David Brewster and Professor Martin, now of Aberdeen, and at 

 that time Mathematical Master in the Madras College of St. 

 Andrews. 



The other evening a one pound note, which a lady friend of ours 

 had just received by post, was handed to us, with a request that 

 we should try and decipher some writing which was observed on 



