GLANDERS AND FARCY. 
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the wrist to the bend of the arm, and above it. The glands of 
the axilla, and those above the arm, become swollen, tense, and 
exceedingly painful. Malignant fever ensues, and the patient 
sinks rapidly. If the sufferer survives long enough, the swollen 
glands burst, and present the same appearance as those we have 
seen in individuals suffering under farcy. There is this difference, 
however, between the causes which produce them : — farcied or 
glandered matter, or an atmosphere contaminated with their ef- 
fluvia, will produce farcy ; but the matter of a fresh healthy 
subject is as likely, some think more so, to engender dissecting 
wound inflammation as that of one in a state of decomposition. 
A fresh human brain is more dangerous to examine than a sub- 
ject dead of the cholera ! 
The resemblance between the symptoms of farcy and the dis- 
ease abovementioned does not apply to glanders in its sirftple 
form, for none of the characteristic features of the latter affection 
are observable in inflammation resulting from dissecting wounds. 
VVe may also mention in this place that the post-mortem appear- 
ances of animals dead of farcy glanders are remarkably similar to 
those of scrofula and consumption in the human frame. The 
“ tubercular depositions ” in different parts of the body, and 
especially in the lungs, characteristic of these melancholy diseases, 
have been observed in the bodies of glandered horses. This is, 
I believe, the only instance of analogy between these maladies 
and any others that “ flesh is heir to.” 
Among the different “ causes of glanders in man ” that have 
been enumerated by writers, we had not observed that arising 
from the posthumous examination of glandered horses : an ex- 
ample of this kind, however, has very recently occurred in 
L’Ecole Veterinaire, at Alfort. 
Auguste Perin, student in the veterinary college at Alfort, 
had, after being affected with syphilis about a year ago, had 
chancres and buboes, which had been cured after three months’ 
treatment. Five months after, Perin was directed to examine a 
horse affected with acute glanders, and to note down all the par- 
ticulars, and make a post-mortem examination of the case. 
Having done so, he became stupid and melancholy, his face pallid, 
his appetite failed, and shivering fits came on. 
On the 28th of August he underwent his practical examination, 
and the horse on which he had to perform his operation had been 
affected with glanders. Perin was then seized with intermittent 
fever, which yielded to the administration of quinine. 
On the 13th of September he came to Paris, and went very 
much about ; and, on his return to college, took to his bed, com- 
