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GLANDERS AND FARCY. 
filling the wounds with small pieces of lint, or cotton, steeped in 
turpentine. 
Sidon, another veterinary surgeon, published a paper about the 
same time, in which he stated that glanders was transmissible 
from the horse to man, causing the worst kinds of ulcers. He 
mentions an instance in which a horse was affected by the disease 
from a farrier who had a glandered sore on his hand, which came 
in contact with the animal while he was giving it a ball. The 
man and the horse both died of the disease. 
We might multiply instances of a similar character from fo- 
reign countries ; but these will suffice. 
We shall now briefly narrate certain facts that came under our 
own immediate observation. 
A groom, named Frost, slept in a stable at Paris occupied by 
a glandered horse. Some days after the death of the animal, 
Prost was attacked with the same disease, which was characterized 
by pustular and gangrenous sores over the body, in the nose and 
throat, beneath the ears, on the glans penis, and on the feet. On 
the evening of his death, a small quantity of matter was collected 
on watch-glasses from the gangrenous sores beneath the ear, on the 
fore arm and the back and shoulder. A foundered mare was then 
inoculated by a veterinary surgeon with the different portions of 
matter. 
First, At the right nostril he inoculated with the matter by 
three punctures, of which two were within the nostrils and one 
without. The two first gave rise to an exudation of blood, but 
the other produced scarcely any. Secondly, On the white part, 
or conjunctiva, of the right eye, he applied a small quantity of the 
matter. Thirdly, At the internal and upper part of the right 
buttock he inoculated with the matter, applying three punctures. 
Four thly, On the internal part of the right armpit he also in- 
serted the matter by three punctures. The left side of the animal 
was also inoculated in a similar manner. 
MM. Leblanc, Dupuy,Vigla, and Desir, gentlemen belonging 
to the veterinary schools, were present at the inoculation of the 
horse. A diary of the different results was kept. 
On the 13th and 14th no appreciable change could be observed 
in the state of the parts inoculated. 
On the evening of the 15th, at seven o’clock, slight circular 
and circumscribed redness and swelling were observable round 
the punctures on the right buttock. At the centre of the swelling 
a depression was seen, corresponding with each puncture ; there 
was also painful swelling in the region of the left buttock, where 
the punctures had been made. The circumference of the wings of 
the left nostril was a little tumefied. There was a discharge of 
