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TRANSMISSION OP GLANDERS TO MAN. 
During the time this frightful malady lasted, we employed, 
without success, tonics and antiseptics internally ; astringents, 
caustics even, and antiputrescents externally. 
However incomplete this case may be deemed, especially 
as far as concerns the unfortunate subject of contagion, 
do not similar details to those I have just related exist in 
abundance, and prove in a most undeniable manner that 
human nature enjoys the sad prerogative of contracting, 
through inoculation, a disease so terrible among our domestic 
animals, and one which veterinary science has designed under 
the name of glanders. — Bee. de Med. Vet. de Sep. 1854. 
ANOTHER INSTANCE OF THE TRANSMISSION OF GLANDERS 
TO MAN. 
In March 9 53, a messenger named Meignan, of the Com- 
mune of Chemilli, consulted a quack by the name of Moque, 
about a discharge affecting one of his horses. 
Moque, who passed in the country as formerly a pupil of 
the veterinary school at Alfort, and even assumed in his prac- 
tice the title of veterinary surgeon, declared, after having exa- 
mined Meignan 5 s horse, that he was affected with “ strangles,” 
but that Meignan might use him and treat him without any 
risk of harm, and that he would answer for his recovery. 
Meignan, equally simple and confiding, followed this dan- 
gerous advice. He made use of his horse, treated and groomed 
him according to the instructions given ; in fact was too faith- 
ful an executor of the prescriptions of a man in whom he had 
placed his confidence : he would daily wipe the nostrils of the 
animal clean with his pocket-handkerchief, lest he might be 
found fault with by the authorities of the villages he was neces- 
sitated 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-glanderous attack contracted from 
his horse. 
Some days after his death M. Pangoue, veterinarian, called 
in by the authority, pronounced that the horse of this unfor- 
tunate man was affected with acute glanders, and recommended 
accordingly his immediate destruction. 
Our brethren, M. M. Pangoue and Bresson, communicated 
to us this fact as another proof of the dangers of empiricism. 
It is not only through their ignorance, as in this case, that 
