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lished by Longman,) in which the learned author 

 describes the recent case of WiUiam Johnson, a 

 patient in St. Thomas's 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 labour- 

 ing under the disease, and had frequently received 

 the discharge from the nostril on his hand, which 

 had been wounded. This fact was discovered, 

 after suspicion had been excited by the nature of 

 the symptoms. Without going at length into the 

 character of those symptoms, it may be interesting 

 to my readers 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 fort- 

 night had elapsed, the hand and ancle became 

 swelled and red, and the fever greatly increased. 

 The skin in various parts of the body gradually 

 assumed the same inflamed appearance, and on the 

 fourteenth da}^, a discharge began to flow from the 

 right nostril, accompanied by a large swelling in the 

 middle of the forehead, of a purple colour : the left 

 eye was nearly closed, and swellings took place on 

 the arms and legs. These swellings rapidly ex- 

 tended over the extremities and the abdomen, and 



