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prerogative of contracting, through inoculation, 

 a disease so terrible among our domestic animals, 

 and one which veterinary science has designated 

 under the name of glanders. — Rec. de Med. Vet. 

 deSep.Ub^.^ 



In man it is generally produced through in- 

 oculation of the matter into a wound. Whether 

 it can be contracted by infection, through the 

 miasmata arising from it, without actual contact 

 of the matter, is not yet quite decided. There 

 are, however, some grounds for believing that this 

 disease is occasionally propagated by infection in 

 the horse; and that the effluvia are capable of com- 

 municating some form of malignant fever, although 

 not true glanders, to the human subject. But the 

 matter from the abscesses or nasal cavities of hu- 

 man beings is capable of communicating the 

 disease both to men and animals. A man died 

 of glanders in St. Bartholomew's jffospital, in 

 1840, and the nurse who attended him inoculated 

 her hand, and died of it also in a few days; and 

 two kittens, which were inoculated from the 

 nurse, became aflPected likewise. Moreover, the 

 blood of a glandered horse injected into the veins 

 of a healthy one, communicated the disease, 

 although no abnormal appearance could be de- 

 tected in it by the microscope. — Druitt's Surgery. 



" An inquest was opened at the Guildhall, 

 Bath, on Friday evening, September 26th, by 

 A. H. English, Esq., the city coroner, on the 

 body of a boy who died from glanders." — Veteri- 

 narian j 1862. 



