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drank out of any vessel used by the horses, nor 

 had he slept in the stable. He died on the 29th. 



— Dublin Journal of Medical Science, 1841. 

 Mr. Rocher, medical student at the hospital of 



LVecker, was charged with the dressing of a 

 patient affected, first, with chronic farcy, and 

 mbsequently with acute glanders, under which 

 he died. In a few days Mr. Rocher showed 

 evidences of the disease, and died glandered, six- 

 teen days from the commencement of the disease. 



— Lancet, 1841. 



In the latter part of May I was requested to 

 see Andrew Foot, aged thirty-six, who presented 

 all the symptoms of glanders. I could not dis- 

 cover any appearances of his having been inocu- 

 lated, but having seen a glandered hjorse some 

 time since, and thinking the above unfortunate 

 case so much resembled that of this horse, I was 

 induced to inquire of the owner whether there 

 was anything the matter with either of his 

 horses, when he told me that one of them was 

 laid up with a bad cold. On examining the ani- 

 mal it proved to be a decided case of glanders. 

 The horse died in ten days afterwards ; Mr. Foot 

 iied also. — Provincial Medical Journal. 



In the hospitals at Paris, according to the ac- 

 ijounts of the medical journals, the cases of glan- 

 u3rs among men have been less frequent than in 

 ttuy preceding years. Sidon, a veterinary sur- 

 geon, published a pctptr in France, in which he 

 stated that glanders >vijs transmissible from the 

 horse to man, causing ».ht worst kinds of ulcers 

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