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placed his confidence : he would daily wipe tht 

 nostrils of the horse clean with his pocket hand- 

 kerchief, lest he might be found fault with by 

 the authorities of the villages he was necessitated 

 to pass through. Such care became to him fatal. 

 On the 7th of April, this unfortunate messenger 

 fell a victim to the effects of the farcino-glander- 

 ous attack contracted from his horse. Some days 

 after his death, M. Pangoue, veterinary surgeon, 

 called in by the authority, pronounced that the 

 horse of this unfortunate man was affected with 

 acute glanders, and recommended accordingly his 

 immediate destruction. Our brethren, MM. Pan- 

 goue and Bresson, communicated to us this fact, 

 as another proof of the danger of empiricism. 



In mentioning a similar case where two horses 

 were glandered, M. Pangoue says: 'Tor the 

 last fortnight these horses had been treated by 

 the proprietor himself, who, in the course of that 

 time, contracted the glanders in spite of all the 

 precautions I had strongly urged him to take, 

 not doubting but that he exposed himself to great 

 risks. Notwithstanding one could not positively 

 assert the channel through which contagion had 

 taken place, it was very easy to suppose what the 

 contagious agent was, and how the glandered 

 virus had operated. However incomplete this 

 case may be deemed, especially as far as con- 

 cerns the unfortunate subject of contagion, do 

 not similar details to those I have just related, 

 exist in abundance, and prove in a most undeni- 

 able manner that human nature enjoys the sad 



