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ON THE COMMUNICABILITY OF GLANDERS 
of farci no-glanderous affection in the human being into the divisions 
laid down by veterinary surgeons. But the cases of chronic glan- 
ders observed in the human being differ entirely from that disease 
in the horse ; for in that animal it frequently exists without in- 
juring their health, at least materially. There is no loss of condition, 
and the animal is still capable of doing its owner service, who 
scruples not to work it as if it were in perfect health. But in the 
human being it is quite different. It is never simple and exempt 
from farcy. In the case cited by M. A. Tardieu, as an instance 
of chronic glanders not complicated with farcy*, there was an ab- 
scess on the left side on a level with the fourth metatarsal, which 
plainly demonstrates the co-existence of farcy, since it is a greater 
or less number of abscesses which forms one of the characteristics 
of this disease in the human being. 
The Etiology of Farcino-Glanderous Affection. 
In the human being the farcino-glanderous affection never deve- 
lops itself spontaneously, but is always communicated. This is 
irrefragably demonstrated by every case that has hitherto been 
published. The contagiousness of the farcino-glanderous affection 
from the horse to the human being is a fact demonstrated by so 
many cases, that no shadow of doubt ought longer to exist on the 
subject. Nevertheless, in the Clinical Veterinary Journal for 
August 1844 we find these passages : — 
“We would that we were able to believe with M. Marchant, 
that none could be found to contradict this important truth.” And 
again : — We cannot discover in these words any expression of a 
scientific conviction of the communicability of glanders from the 
horse to the human being, a conviction which M. Marchant be- 
lieves to be so general and absolute among veterinarianst.” 
These sentences plainly shew that all veterinary surgeons do 
not believe that glanders may be communicated from the horse to 
the human being. The opinion professed by these incredulous gen- 
tlemen is the more dangerous, as it may prevent them from taking 
the necessary precautions to ensure their own safety, or that of the 
public generally, by enforcing the strict observance of all the ordi- 
nances and regulations of government concerning the slaughter of 
glandered horses, &c., and may tend to lull persons who are in con- 
stant contact with all kinds of horses into a dangerous security. 
* A. Tardieu, de la Morve et du Farcin chronique, etc., p. 121. 
t La Clinique Veterinaire, Journal de Mtfdecine et Chirurgie comparccs ; 
Aug. 1844, p. 366-369. 
