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GLANDERS AND FARC A”. 
plaining of violent pains in the muscles of his arms, neck, and 
back. On the 14th, there was a thick, sero-purulent discharge 
from the right nostril. On the day previous, a slight eruption 
had appeared, accompanied by an erysipelatous redness on his 
right cheek. The left cheek appeared as usual. His pains were 
now much more intense ; he blew his nose often, and remarked fre- 
quently on the matter which came from it, to which he was con- 
tinually applying his finger with great anxiety. His intellectual 
faculties seemed undisturbed, and he answered all questions 
correctly. On the nights of the 15th and 16th he was very 
restless and delirious, and fell into profuse perspirations. His 
respiration was hurried and noisy ; the slightest motion occa- 
sioned pain; and he died on the morning of the 17th, at half-past 
eight o’clock. 
At the inspection of the body after death, blood was found in- 
fused on the brain. The lining membrane of the nostrils had 
a reddish violet appearance, and, on the right side, there was a 
row of small ulcerations ; on the external side were several 
openings of small abscesses. There were also abscesses in the 
lungs exactly similar to those found in glandered horses. 
We may draw the following inferences from the foregoing 
case : — 1st, That the patient had come in contact with a horse 
affected with glanders, and that he lived under the most favourable 
circumstances for engendering the disease — for, while yet 
struggling with the first affection, he had opened a second 
glandered horse. 2d, The suddenness of the death must be 
ascribed to extravasation of blood on the brain. 3d, The ulcera- 
tions in the nasal cavity were identical with those which veteri- 
nary surgeons term chancres, and the discharge from the nose 
similar to that from glandered horses. As to the nature of 
glanders, it is evidently the result of a specific morbid matter 
contaminating the surfaces and parts to which it is applied, and 
also the result of an atmosphere poisoned with the effluvia of 
glandered matter affecting the organic functions and inducing 
certain alterations. It is worthy of observation, that all the 
exact and useful details which we possess relative to glanders 
have been obtained since that disease was first discovered in the 
human subject. 
We have stated in our first article on the subject under consi- 
deration that we have little to expect from any plan of treatment 
hitherto proposed, either for glanders or farcy ; and, in the absence 
of any antidote for these fatal maladies, our only resource is pro- 
phylactic measures. As, however, there are certain medicines 
that have of late been very strongly recommended in the treat- 
