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appearing on all parts of the upper and lower extremities, although 
they continued one after another to disperse, and nothing in the 
general condition of the patient, except his emaciation, gave cause 
for alarm. One curious collateral circumstance may however be 
stated. Early in December, 1841, a horse being inoculated with 
the matter from one of the abscesses, died in the course of five 
days, without, however, presenting, during life, any of the ordi- 
nary symptoms, or after death any of the usual morbid appearances 
belonging to the disease. 
The treatment of the patient was nearly the same throughout, 
consisting chiefly of the decoction and extract of cinchona in large 
doses, with wine. 
On the 5th of July, 1842, iodine with iodide of potassium 
was administered. This was followed by an attack of erysipelas 
in the left arm, and the iodine was suspended, to be resumed on 
the 17th. No new tumours had appeared during the previous 
two months, the cicatrisation of those still existing was soon 
afterwards completed, and the patient was discharged perfectly 
cured on the 31st of July. 
Andral, and other able pathologists who saw this case, were 
unanimous in pronouncing it a true instance of glanders. The 
journal from which we have extracted the above relation says, 
“ The case is unique. In all the instances of glanders in the 
human subject hitherto reported, the disease has proved fatal. ” 
Gazette des Hopitaux . 
COMPTE-RENDU OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE 
VETERINARY SCHOOL AT ALFORT. 
[Continued from page 103.] 
Diseases of the Chest. — The antiphlogistic and revulsive treat- 
ment has been almost exclusively employed, and generally with 
success, against acute inflammation of the lungs and of the 
pleura. 
Among the numerous cases of pneumonia that have come 
under our observation, there are three which, by reason of the 
singular forms they assumed, deserve particular mention. 
In one case the pneumonia, perfectly distinguished from the 
others at its commencement, both by exterior appearances and 
by those that are furnished by auscultation, is complicated at this 
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