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ACUTE GLANDERS FOLLOWING A BITE BY 
A HORSE. 
By M. Landouzy. 
A VINE-GROWER, fifteen days after buying a horse in July 
1843, perceived that it was labouring under glanders. The dis- 
ease was communicated to an ass living in the same stable. In 
order to make the horse take the drinks, he used to open his jaws 
with the help of a rope. One day the rope broke, and the jaws 
closing suddenly, he received a bite on his cheek. On the 20th 
of December, being two days after this, symptoms of acute glanders 
manifested themselves. A pustular eruption, abundant discharge 
from the nares, dyspnoea, diminution of the respiratory murmur, 
abscesses, &c. ; and in addition to these symptoms, there appeared 
one that has not yet been described — opacity of the cornea. 
The man died on the 2d of January. At the autopsy an abund- 
ant eruption was found on the thorax and the abdomen ; the bronchi 
were covered by a miliary eruption ; the lung was filled with ab- 
scesses ; the liver and spleen were evidently increased in size ; in 
the intestines there was a miliary eruption above and below the 
caecum, and in the caecum seven ulcerations, a lesion that has not 
yet been mentioned. The principal features of interest which the 
case presents are, its inoculation by a bite, the opacity of the 
cornea, and the ulcerations of the caecum. 
M. BARTHELEMY remarked, that the horse had been five months 
ill, and that, consequently, as the case was one of acute glanders, 
communicated by a bite from an animal chronically diseased, the 
distinction which some persons had attempted to establish between 
acute and chronic glanders was not warranted. 
THE VETERINARY ART IN INDTA. 
By J. Grellier, Esq., M.R.C.S. 
[Continued from page 509.] 
On the Intestinal Canal and its Diseases. 
Stomach and Intestines. 
The stomach of a horse differs very much from that of almost 
every other animal. It is smaller in proportion to the bulk of the 
animal, and is partly lined with a strong, thick, insensible mem- 
brane, resembling white leather. 
