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ON THE COMMUNICABILITY OF GLANDERS 
yet found the requisition of this formality insufficient to induce 
them to consent to the animal’s being destroyed. Thus have we 
had the satisfaction of getting rid of a number of dangerous ani- 
mals, which thoughtless persons deemed might still be worked 
with impunity. 
The more we consider the number of glandered horses, and of 
those which have been glandered for a considerable period, that 
we are daily called upon to visit, the more we are convinced that 
persons should be regularly appointed in Paris carefully to inspect 
the establishments of all dealers and breeders of horses. 
It is our intention to take up this subject soon, and consider it 
under all its bearings. 
On Farcy and Glanders in the Human Being. 
By Dr. A. MARCHANT, of Charenton. 
VETERINARIANS have given the names of farcy and glanders to 
two diseases which appear to have the same origin, although they 
differ in exterior form and nosological symptoms. 
They are spontaneously developed in solipedes, through the 
medium of causes that are more or less known to us; and can 
subsequently be transmitted to the human being either by con- 
tagion or infection. 
Until within the last few years it was believed that horses only 
were susceptible of glanders and farcy; but since the writings of 
Dr. Elliotson, of London*, and M. Rayer, of Francet, have ap- 
peared, both human and veterinary surgeons have gradually be- 
come convinced that the human subject is liable to contract this 
disease either by means of cohabitation or contact with glandered 
or farcied animals. In proportion as the disease has become 
known corroborative cases have multiplied, and each fresh medical 
journal narrates some fresh instances and observations. 
This contagion acts much more frequently between the horse 
and other solipedes that have an organic predisposition to such 
diseases than between the horse and the human being; but although 
not so frequently seen in man, he is not the less susceptible of it, 
and this fact is now supported by too many authenticated cases for 
a shadow of doubt to be longer entertained on the subject. 
What name should now be given to glanders and farcy ? Must 
* Elliotson on Glanders in the Human Subject ; Medic. Chir. Transact, 
vol. xvi, p. 1 to 171. 
| Rayer, de la Morve et du Farcin ehez l’Homme. Paris, 1837. 
