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parts of Mr. Turner’s body, with matter taken from one of which 
Mr. Coleman inoculated an ass, and the inoculation “ ended in 
farcy and glanders and death.” Notwithstanding this, however, 
Mr. Coleman remarks in the letter above referred to, and from 
which this quotation is drawn, that “ Mr. Turner had no symp- 
toms whatever of glanders” — “ nor did the local disease of the arm 
exactly resemble farcy.” It was pretty manifest, however, to use 
Mr. Coleman’s words, “ that some poison had been absorbed ,” 
though not productive of glanders : “ as far as my experience,” 
adding the Professor, in the same letter, “ the nostrils of the human 
subject are not susceptible of glandered ulceration or inflammation.” 
Subsequently to Mr. Coleman’s experiment with the matter taken 
from Mr. William Turner, after the removal of the patient to Croy- 
don, his brother, Mr. James Turner, in two instances, by inocu- 
lating young asses with the matter, confirmed the glanderous na- 
ture of the virus, both the animals having died after inoculation 
of farcy and glanders, exhibiting the usual course of symptoms and 
dying about the ordinary period. All this urged Mr. Travers to 
admit the absorption of the poison of glanders by the human sys- 
tem, though he still denied there was any “ evidence of its acting 
on the human body otherwise than as the poison of dead animal 
bodies ,” notwithstanding the poison “ retained its properties after 
passing through the human system.” 
The first recognition of the disease thus proved to have been 
caught by man from glandered or farcied horses, as glanders or 
farcy in the human being, was, in this country, made by Mr. Brown, 
surgeon to the Second Dragoons : his celebrated case, published in 
July 1829, in the Medical Gazette, under the bold and unambigu- 
ous title of “ Fatal Case of Acute Glanders in the Human Subject,” 
will long remain a memento of this famous recognition. 
While searching, from memoranda of works and references lying 
before me, for data for drawing up the history of glanders and farcy 
in man , I accidentally alighted upon the following account, pre- 
senting a summary at once so interesting and useful to veterinary 
readers, that I have taken the liberty of transcribing it* : — 
“ From the commencement of the present century it was known 
that wounds resulting from the posthumous examination of glan- 
dered horses were of a dangerous character. It was also known, 
that, in consequence of such wounds, several veterinary surgeons 
were attacked with malignant inflammation, pains in the joints, 
mortification, terminating in some instances fatally. But all these 
It is taken from an excellent little work, entitled “ Manual of Diseases 
of the Skin” (of the Human Being), from the French of M. Cazenave and 
Schedel. By Thomas H. Burgess, M.D. The paragraph here transcribed 
is from Dr. Burgess’ own pen. 
