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to admit of the slightest hope. Previous to his 

 death he said, "I am dying, I shall die soon, 

 but I shall die happy; — I know now I am glan- 

 dered — I shall die as my horses do — I shall die 

 happy.'^ — yetermarian, 1833. 



A case is mentioned in the ^^ Lancet" of 1834, 

 of a Mr. Norbrook, who punctured a blister on 

 his knee with a lance with which he had pre- 

 viously been bleeding a horse ; some of the blood 

 remained on the blade, from this he was inocu- 

 lated, and died a horrid death. 



" This school has, in the year just expiring, 

 added another mournful case to those previously 

 recorded in the hospitals of the biped, of the 

 communication of glanders to the human being." 

 ^Alfort College Record, 1838. 



Dr. Barham, of Truro, reports a case of glan- 

 ders in the " Veterinarian" of 1840, in the per- 

 son of Joseph Pascoe, aged 22, resulting in death. 



Al young man named P. Kelley, aged twenty, 

 was admitted into Richmond hospital on the 26th 

 August 1838. On admission his face presented 

 that peculiar aspect which is so characteristic of 

 glanders; the left half was very much swollen, 

 tense, and shining, the redness fading away 

 gradually and becoming lost in the surrounding 

 integuments. He stated that he had always been 

 healthy, and when questioned as to the nature of 

 his occupation, said that he had been employed 

 for the last four months in attending horses that 

 were glandered; he did nsjt recollect that he had 

 a wound or sore on either hand ; he had not 



