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GLANDERS AND FARCY IN MAN. 
results were attributed merely to a septic poison, analogous to that 
produced by other putrid matters, and not to the specific action of 
a particular virus. However, about that period (1811) M. Lorin 
discovered and proved the transmission of farcy from the horse to 
man. — ( Observations sur la Communication du Farcin des Che - 
veaux aux Hommes. Journ. de Med. Veterinaire, Feb. 1812). 
“ Although this is the first case on record of the disease in man, 
it by no means follows that the human race was never afflicted 
with glanders before this time. On the contrary, we have good 
reason to suppose that mankind was afflicted formerly as well as 
now with both varieties of the complaint, but that it escaped the 
less scrutinizing observation of our forefathers. It was not till 
1821, however, that the first detailed case of acute glanders in 
man was published. It is recorded by Shilling, a veterinary sur- 
geon at Berlin . — ( See Rust's Magazin fur die Gesammte Hiel- 
kunde , vol. ix.) — The subject of this case was a stable-boy at a 
veterinary college, who became unwell soon after washing the 
nostrils of a glandered horse. A pustular eruption broke out on 
the skin, pimples appeared on the nose, which speedily became 
gangrenous ; the boy died ; and at the examination of the body 
after death, small purulent spots were found on the frontal bone, 
and pus in the muscles of the extremities. In another case, ap- 
pended to that of Shilling, and which is related by Weisses, there 
were observed delirium, pustular eruption on the skin, and a secre- 
tion of yellow purulent matter from the nostrils. This patient had 
been taking care of a glandered horse, and he died on the thirteenth 
day from the commencement of the attack. Soon after these cases 
were published in Germany, Mr. Muscroft recorded, in the nine- 
teenth volume of the Edinburgh Journal , the case of a jockey who 
wounded himself in the hand while trimming a glandered horse, 
and died with all the symptoms of glanders. Here also the re- 
semblance of the disease in the horse with that observed in man 
is strikingly exact. In 1822, Thomas Tarozzi, in Italy, translated 
the case of Shilling into the Annali Universally and gave a de- 
scription of a pestilential disease which was developed in a stable 
where a glandered horse died ; out of thirty-five persons who 
visited that stable eleven were attacked with a malignant com- 
plaint, characterised, from its invasion to its termination, by fever 
and an eruption of boils and gangrenous pimples. At the close of 
1823, two new cases of the disease in the human subject were 
published in the Edinburgh Journal ; and another was published 
in the same year in Germany, by Seidler, in Rust's Magazin. In 
1826, Mr. Travers threw some additional light on the history of 
glanders in man, in his work on “ Constitutional Irritation." In 
1829, Arnold Grub defended an inaugural dissertation at Berlin, in 
