GLANDERS AND FARCY IN MAN. 
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the opinion of the identity of the disease of the horse and of the 
human being ; while they were opposed by MM. Bartlemy and 
Bouley. The latter opinion appeared to prevail at the time, but 
the publication of a very elaborate and very valuable memoir by 
M. Rayer, inserted in the Memoirs of the Academy for the same 
year, removed all further doubt on that question. In addition to 
the case (Prost’s) published, M. Rayer gave a great number of 
observations, the results of his own researches into the nature of 
the disease. He confined his description of glanders and of farcy 
to the acute forms of these complaints. He gives a graphic de- 
scription of the progress of the disease in the human subject. 
The inoculations, and their results, of man with the morbid virus 
taken from the horse, and the reverse, have been elaborately dis- 
cussed. Indeed, the existence of glanders in the human being 
could be no longer doubtful even to the most incredulous, after 
perusing the important and interesting memoir of M. Rayer. 
During the year 1838, MM. Bruguieres and Yigla recorded a 
case of the same malady, which occurred under M. Breshet, at the 
Hotel Dieu, Paris : and about the same period M. Deville on the 
one hand, and MM. Husson and Nivet on the other, published ad- 
ditional facts, which immediately produced a new discussion in 
the Academy as to the possibility of the transmission of glanders 
from man to the horse, and vice versa. M. Bartlemy, who again 
took an active part in the debate, seemed wedded to his former 
opinion, in which no other member now coincided. New cases 
were published soon after by MM. Nonat, Legroux, Andral, Lions, 
Petit, and Renaud ; and M. Vigla, in an interesting thesis, (Janu- 
ary, 1839,) has taken up with much talent, and confirmed by ob- 
servations of his own, several interesting points in the history of 
this dire disease. 
“ M. Leblanc, of Alfort, has demonstrated, in two important me- 
moirs on this subject — the first entitled “ On the different Kinds 
of Glanders and Farcy considered as Varieties of one and the same 
general Affection;” and the other, “ Experimental Researches on 
the Effects of the Inoculation of the Horse and Ass with glandered 
Pus and Mucus, and with morbid humours of a different nature;” 
Paris, 1839 — First, that all forms of glanders and farcy are con- 
tagious, but differ in intensity according to the constitution of the 
animal and other obvious circumstances; and, secondly, that pus 
or mucus taken from glandered men or horses, no matter from 
which, will produce glanders or farcy in healthy animals of a 
similar kind if inoculated with them, whilst pus or other matter 
not taken from glandered or farcied animals will not produce either 
glanders or farcy. 
“ In the London Medical Gazette for April 1840, there is an 
