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which he relates a remarkable case of the transmission of glanders 
from the horse to man. The same year another thesis on the same 
subject was defended by Kriseg. It was also in 1829 that Mr. 
Andrew Brown published a well-marked case of acute glanders in 
man, in the London Medical Gazette , vol. iv, p. 134. 
“ However, notwithstanding their extreme importance, these facts 
were as yet little known, when Dr. Elliotson published a memoir, 
intitled “ Glanders in the Human Subject ,” in the sixteenth volume 
of the Med. Chir. Transactions for 1830, which at once attracted 
the attention of observers to this interesting and important ques- 
tion. This memoir contains three well-authenticated and con- 
vincing cases of the disease in man ; and from its publication, only 
twelve years since, we date the commencement of our inquiries into 
the disease., in so far as the human being is concerned, for up to 
that period doubts were still entertained by many persons as to the 
identity of the two diseases. In the same year (1830) M. A. 
Nauman, Professor of Veterinary Medicine at Utrecht, also re- 
ported two interesting cases ( Wee-Artsenijkundig Magazin ; Gro- 
ningen, 1830) ; in addition to which, M. Alexander, Professor at 
the same University, has added two new instances in the course 
of the year 1836. — ( De la Diathese purulente , et de la Morve 
aigue communiqute a I'homme ; Archives Generales, Dec. 1836.) 
In 1833, Dr. Elliotson published another case of the disease, with 
a coloured drawing. Mr. Youatt saw this case with Dr. E. It 
was the first case of the kind he had seen ; and up to that period 
would not, according to the statements of Dr. Elliotson, admit the 
transmissibility of glanders from the horse to man. He has since, 
however, announced his belief in that opinion. In 1834, M. 
Hertwig observed seven cases of farcy and glanders in the human 
subject ; amongst these, three were evidently and distinctly those 
of well-marked simple glanders. It is also evident that certain 
cases observed and published by M. Brera in 1833, and described 
by him under the name of Typhus carbonneux in the Encyclo - 
graphie Medic., belonged properly to the disease under considera- 
tion. M. Felix Vogeli, of Lyons, in a memoir, intitled “ Some 
Facts tending to establish the Transmission of the Farcy of Horses 
to Man,” has cited five examples. — ( Journ . de Med. Veterinaire, 
Jan. 1835.) From 1830 to 1837 a variety of papers have been 
published on this subject by MM. Hardwicke, Wolff, Prinz, Berndt, 
Barth, and Eck. 
“ M. Rayer communicated to the members of the French Aca- 
demy, February 14, 1837, the remarkable case of the man Prost, 
who died under his care, of acute glanders. This interesting com- 
munication immediately gave rise to an animated discussion in the 
Academy, in which MM. Rayer, Dupuy, and Velpeau, supported 
