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He mentions an instance in which a horse was 

 affected by the disease from a farrier who had a 

 glandered sore on his hand, which came in con- 

 tact with the animal while he was giving it a 

 ball. The man and the horse both died with the 

 disease. 



A groom, named Provost, slept in a stable at 

 Paris, occupied by a glandered horse. Some 

 days after the death of the animal Provost was 

 attacked with the same disease and died, 



Mr. Hamerton, surgeon to the Castle-town Dis- 

 pensary, has placed upon record three cases of 

 acute glanders in the human subject, all running 

 the same course, and terminating fatally, and all 

 traceable to the same cause, i. e., contagion from 

 a diseased horse. — Veterinarian^ 1843. 



A vine-grower, in drenching a glandered horse, 

 was bitten on the cheek ; fifteen days after he 

 died glandered. — Vet. 1844. 



The patient, whom I saw several times during 

 the progress of the malady, was Thomas Whit- 

 taker, whose case was clearly one of inoculation. 

 The poor fellow was bald-headed, and received a 

 slight scratch on his scalp which cost him his 

 Hfe. He recollected wiping the perspiration off his 

 head with his dirty hands ; and as the scratch in 

 his scalp first showed the true character of a farcy 

 ulcer, there can be little doubt as to the inocula- 

 tion having taken place at the time of skinning 

 the farcied horse. He survived the inoculation 

 twenty-one days. Robert Pick, an old, faithful, 

 *nd I believe, 'valued, servant to the gentleman 



