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the practice of inoculation may create ; on the other hand, 
the average loss of 8 per cent., which, according to the same 
experiments, represents the mortality attendant on the catch- 
ing of peripneumonia, is much inferior to that which expresses 
the loss produced by the natural course of the disease, under 
circumstances the most unfavorable and perhaps the most 
usual in practice : a difference explanatory, no doubt, of the 
rusticity of the greater number of subjects the committee 
have made use of in their experiments on contagion through 
cohabitation. 
To conclude, although it does not follow as the result of 
the committee’s experiments that inoculation be, in an eco- 
nomical point of view 7 , an advantageous measure — still, as 
such experiments demonstrate its prophylactic virtue, in the 
face of so considerable a fact, the committee is of opinion 
that the practice of inoculation ought to be encouraged, and 
it entertains a hope that it will become of service to agricul- 
ture as soon as it shall become perfectionated in its appli- 
tion, through further cultivation of it. The committee does 
not found this hope on its own experiments, yet it believes it 
its duty to equally regard results afforded by experiments 
either analogous to their own or practised in any other way — 
which have equally been undertaken in Holland and Bel- 
gium, and in the departments of the Nord and Pas-de- Calais, 
by scientific commissions, with a view of ascertaining the 
value of inoculation as a preventive of the epizootic pneumonia 
of cattle. An analytical resume of the labours of these 
commissions is annexed to this, which we may give at another 
time. 
Horn© Department, 
CASE OE ACUTE GLANDERS IN THE HUMAN SUBJECT : 
WITH REMARKS. 
By W. I. Cox, Esq. 
[ Read before the Medical Society of London , March 1 8 thJ] 
That the peculiar malady called glanders is communicable 
from brutes to the human species is now a completely esta- 
blished fact in pathology. Such instances, however, having 
been hitherto very rare, the relation of each case of fresh 
occurrence, and of the facts and circumstances connected 
