FROM THE HORSE TO THE HUMAN BEING. 
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the disease in all its vigour and intensity. The experiments made 
on this point have been numerous ; but I shall content myself with 
citing two cases that have come under my notice, in which asses 
were inoculated with the pus taken from a man. The first was 
made by M. Philippe, surgeon en chef at the Hotel Dieu, Rheims, 
on a young and healthy ass. It was perfectly successful. The ani- 
mal died, glandered, eight days after the inoculation* * * § .” The 
second was made, also on a strong, healthy young ass, by M. L. 
Laudanzy, of Rheims. The animal was inoculated with the pus 
taken from a man — the result was the samef. With these facts 
before us, how is it possible to retain a shadow of doubt ; and 
M. Tardieu, who has published a remarkable thesis on chronic 
glanders and farcy, was so convinced of this fact, that he says, “ the 
communicability of these diseases from the horse to the human 
being is an incontestable fact, which can no longer be disputed J”. 
At the close of the discussion M. Yelpeau said, “ I am more 
than ever convinced that Prost died of acute glanders §.” And 
M. Dupuy added, — “ M. Rayer is doubtless in the right, and his 
opponents are wandering in error.” 
In order to establish the contagiousness of glanders so as to 
convince the most incredulous, T have only to pass in review the 
discussions that took place on this subject in the Academy of 
Medicine. M. Barthelemy, from his high scientific position and 
reputation, was enabled to add great force to his own objections, 
and he failed not to collect and cite those of all other anti-conta- 
gionists. 
In the following year, 1838, some observations on glanders by 
Messieurs Breschet, Husson, and Deville, induced the Academy 
to resume their discussions on this subject. New cases and facts 
had by this time been collected, and M. Barthelemy candidly and 
honourably said II, “ and as my opposition is conscientious, and not 
merely for the pleasure of contradicting or arguing, but for the 
purpose of eliciting truths which may be of material benefit to 
science, I shall commence what I am about to say by confessing, 
that I do perceive some analogy, some resemblance, between the 
lesions existing in the nasal cavities of the specimen submitted to 
us by my talented friend, M. Breschet and those which are found 
in the nasal cavities of a horse that died of one of those dis- 
eases termed acute glanders. But is this any reason why we 
* Observation d’un Cas de Morve aigue chez FHomme, par M. Philippe, 
p. 9—28. 
f Gazette Medicate (20 July, 1844), p. 462. 
1 A. Tardieu de la Morve et du Farcin Chronique. Paris, 1843; p. 139. 
§ Bulletins de l’Academie de M6decine, p. 480 — 482. 
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