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Btaud. He had con&lant rigors, a burning skin, white tongue, and 

 his pulse was I'iO. The wound in the hand was infiinicd, and 

 the calf of tlie right leg and the thigh were swollen, and evidently 

 the seats of abscesses. These were freely opened, with relief He 

 was ordered effervescing medicine, and two pints of porter. The 

 case was then regarded as one of pyaemia. On the 14th he waa 

 much relieved. He had slept tolerably. The abscesses discharged 

 freely, and he was able to take his food. On the 15th he was seized 

 with vomiting, bringing up a dark bilious fluid. His powers were 

 less. Wine was 2;iven freelv. On the 16th the vomiting- continued, 

 and he complained of a pain in the left thigh. An abscess was dis- 

 covered, on examination, which was freely opened. The man, at 

 this time, was physically in a very low condition. He took brandy, 

 eggs, and other liquid nourishment with avidity. His manner wag 

 peculiar, and somewhat excited. On the 17th another abscess was 

 opened in the left arm. On the 18th the left foot became the seat 

 of an abscess, and on the 1 9th, for the first time, a pustular erup- 

 tion was observ'ed on the face and body, which suggested to Mr. 

 Birkett the probability that some animal poison was the cause of 

 all this mischief. 



The eruption was peculiar, having no definite shape. It ap- 

 peared to be more like small irregular blebs, containing i^us, vary- 

 ing from the size of a pea to a sixpence. Some were round, others 

 oval, and others of an irregular form. Toward evening, also, his 

 breathing became much impaired, a bloody mucus obstru(;ting the 

 nostrils. Toward night he became delirious; his powers became 

 less, the nasal discharge more profuse, and at 1,30, on the 20th, he 

 died. The eruption, some hours before his death, in parts, had 

 disappeared ; but in others a fresh crop sprang up, particularly 

 over the region of the sternum. These were, however, of the 

 pame character, but smaller. No post-mortem examination was 

 made.* 



CONTAOTOUSNESS OP G LANDERS. 



Mr. Percivall submits the following deductions, regarding 

 the contagiousness of glanders, as the result of facta gleaned from 

 his own experience : 



" 1. That farcy and glanders, w lich constitute tne same disease, 



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