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throat ; the swollen, discharging eyelids ; with the more 
suppurative character of the pustules, at once induced me tc 
set down the disease as glanders. Accordingly I prescribed 
bark, with diluted hydrochloric acid, an expectorant, and 
stimulants. In the evening my opinion was more confirmed. 
The patient died about six hours after my evening visit. I 
examined the three horses. They were all in sound health ; 
their nostrils dry ; their eyes free from discharge ; they had 
no coughs ; their coats were in good condition ; but one had 
grease in the near hind leg . Though denied by the husband, 
there seems no doubt that the woman had washed this leg. 
The disease was not extensive, but still it was a leg discharging 
matter. Her constitution seems to have been very susceptible 
of absorbing poison ; for, two years ago, she injured her 
finger when attending as nurse on a patient with a suppu- 
rating wound of his leg, and she suffered much then from 
pustular fever and eruption. In the present attack she had 
been ill for eight days before I saw her. Farcy had preceded 
the glanders, though Professor Dick says “ the two diseases 
are only modifications/’ Entertaining some doubts as to 
the possibility of the discharge from grease conveying 
glanders, 1 begged my friend Mr. Lizars to ask the opinion 
of Mr. Williamson, veterinary surgeon of Edinburgh, on 
this point. Mr. Lizars, in reply, writes to me thus : — “ I 
have read over your view r s on glanders to Mr. Williamson, 
who corroborates the greater part of them. He says that if 
you inoculate a horse with the matter from a leg affected 
with grease, or quittor, or foul sore, the horse will become 
affected with glanders. Therefore, there can be no doubt 
that the poor woman caught the disease from the horse’s leg. 
Glanders often commence with farcy.” Two points in this 
case struck me as remarkable. First, as noticed by Dr. 
Graves, “ the variety of inflammatory actions observed in the skin ;” 
second, as noticed by Dr. Ballard, “ the close resemblance in 
the condition of the nervous system to that in delirium 
tremens.” — Association Medical Journal . 
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“ It is, perhaps, proper that it should be distinctly explained 
and understood, that the practitioners of homoeopathy, par- 
ticularly those in Great Britain, have generally sought to 
derive advantage from the assertion that the doctrines of 
Hahnemann regarding infinitesimal doses, &c., formed merely 
additions to and improvements upon that system of medicine, 
