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trace any signs of the distinctive tubercles in the 

 pulmonary tissue, notwithstanding the most care- 

 ful search, and in cutting the mucous membrane 

 of the nostril his knife slipped and punctured his 

 finger, ;^i^otwithstanding that every precaution 

 was taken and everything done for him that 

 medical science could suggest, he died in a few 

 days after suffering untold agony." Numerous 

 other cases can be quoted of men dying of this 

 malignant disease, but these two cases are 

 enough to show how necessary it is to proceed 

 with the utmost caution, if it is only expected 

 that a horse is afflicted with glanders. The remote 

 cause of glanders is, we fear, to be found in ill- 

 ventilated and badly drained stables ; there the 

 ammonia from the urine fills the whole atmo- 

 sphere, which being constantly inhaled ultimately 

 produces a poisonous effect upon the lungs, 

 caused by an undue quantity of oxygen being 

 inhaled ; besides the constant irritation which it 

 must naturally produce upon that delicate portion 

 of the mucous membrane, which is the organ of 

 smell, it induces the formation of those tubercles 

 which once formed can never be eradicated. We 

 find that glanders almost always break out in 

 ill-ventilated stables, and which are likewise kept 

 too hot. Fracture of the nasal bone has been 

 said to produce it in some few instances, as well 

 as a long continued and inveterate catarrh with 

 a constant and irritating discharge from the 

 nostrils. We find that in the lofty well-aired 

 stables of gentlemen this disease is comparatively 

 little known, and when it does show itself in 



