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highly contagious. All authors agree as to the 

 symptoms, and but little difference 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 inoculated 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 follow- 

 ing 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 morning. Dr. Wilson, who had 

 attended him, gave a certificate that the deceased 

 died from blood poisoning, caused by inoculation 

 from a glandered horse. The deceased was only 

 24 years of age, and had been recently married," 

 In the same month we 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 inoculation 

 while dissecting the carcase of a horse which was 

 affected with that disease. The submaxillary 

 lymphatic of the animal was enlarged, and the 

 characteristic discharge and ulceration were 

 present, but the unfortunate gentleman could not 



