144 CURE OF GLANDERS IN THE HUMAN BEING. 
Mr. Wheatley very properly hints at an occasional cause of 
disease among calves. Barnard Castle is a large cattle market. 
Many calves are brought in carts from the west moors and dales, 
and the dealers bestow very little care upon them, as regards food 
or protection from the weather, during the journey. Mr. Wheatley 
relates, that he was sent for by a neighbouring farmer to examine 
some calves. He found them in a most deplorable condition — 
theirage varying from one to two months. Twoof them had died on 
the preceding day, and four others were stretched out and nearly 
wasted away. The eyelids were swollen and glued together with 
offensive matter, which flowed in a considerable quantity from 
each nostril. They all died on the following day. This, perhaps, 
is not to be considered as any illustration of the epidemic that 
is the present subject of consideration, but of the ease with 
which many epidemics may be produced and propagated. The 
house was filled with an offensive odour, and the remaining four 
died on the following day. 
Mr. Youatt still solicits communications on this important 
subject. Yorkshire will come next under consideration. 
AN ACCOUNT OF THE CURE OF GLANDERS 
IN THE HUMAN BEING. 
A waggoner, nineteen years of age, entered the Hopital de 
la Charite, in Paris, on the 18th of October, 1841. He com- 
plained of having felt ill for the week preceding, without being 
able to specify any particular seat of disease. Soon afterwards in- 
tense pains were felt in the ancle and knee-joints, and the muscles 
of thelegand thigh, although unattended with swelling or redness. 
His pulse became quick, the thirst intense, with headach and pro- 
stration. 
On the 25th of October pustules filled with a purulent matter 
appeared on the instep and upper surface of the three smaller toes 
of the left foot. These pustules broke, and cicatrization was 
completed in a few days ; but a diffused swelling now made its 
appearance in the anterior part of the superior third of the thigh, 
followed by two similar tumours, one on each leg. M. Mouncret, 
under whose care the patient was placed, now suspected the 
nature of the disease, and ascertained that one of the horses 
kept in the stable where the patient had been sleeping actually 
had the glanders. For the eight months ensuing tumours of a 
similar kind to the foregoing were successively and incessantly 
