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teaclies him that a glandered horse can rarely 

 remain long among sound ones without serious 

 mischief ensuing. It is affirmed that glanders is 

 communicated to the human being. That a 

 loathsome and fatal disease results from inocu- 

 lation with the matter of glanders is undoubted : 

 I am awaie, indeed, of one case which goes a 

 great way towards establishing the identity of the 

 disease. One of the feeders in the Badsworth 

 hunt cut himself while preparing a farcied leg 

 for the hounds; he died within a week. A day 

 or two before his death an ass was inoculated with 

 the matter from some of the sores that broke out 

 about him, and died, evidently glandered. — 

 Youatt's Lectures. 



A man aged twenty-three was admitted into 

 St. Thomas's Hospital; he complained of much 

 pain in the head and became delirious, to miti- 

 gate which, leeches were applied to the forehead; 

 he then spoke of wandering and acute pains 

 every\^,iiere, indicating some rheumatic affection; 

 a tumor appeared upon the hand and another on 

 the foot, seemingly of a gangrenous nature; the 

 pain ^^ the head \^onld again return attended by 

 delirium bO tha^. ^©w? compelled to be strapped 

 on hip 1/ed •. and all the while his flesh was wasting 

 and ni? tarength diminishing. On questioning 

 the poor fellow, it was ascertained that he had 

 Jiaf' a glandered horse under his care a month 

 before, and that the discharge from the nose had 

 come upon his hands. The case was now suf« 

 ficiently plain; but the jatient was too far gonfl 



