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The identity of the disease with glanders in the horse was 
proved by the inoculation of an ass with the fluid contained in 
one of the pustules. The animal soon shewed all the symptoms 
of acute glanders, and died in five days. So great was the ex- 
citement among the peasantry in the neighbourhood, and so 
alarmed were they by the occurrence and fatal termination of the 
three cases, that they broke down the house where the ass that 
had been experimented on was, and would have killed it but for 
the opportune arrival of Mr. Hamerton. This gentleman seems 
to doubt the possibility of this disease being communicated from 
man to man, from the fact that although the three patients were 
all living in close, ill-ventilated and crowded cabins, and wore 
the same clothes throughout the disease ; in fact, although 
every circumstance was present by which the atmosphere could 
be tainted, still neither friend, relative, nor nurse-tender, sickened 
of the disease. Actual contact with the diseased matter appears 
to be necessary for the transference of glanders. 
Mr. Hamerton concludes by remarking, — in the absence of any 
therapeutic means of curing, or even alleviating, this formidable 
and fatal disease, one in which the records of medicine have not 
furnished a single instance of recovery, and one also in which 
the physician is unable to afford an interval of ease, or assuage 
the most frightful agony that human nature is exposed to ; with 
all these facts before us, and in the humiliating reflection of 
being merely silent lookers on, with all the (resources of our art 
in this disease futile and useless, we should turn our thoughts to 
preventive measures, and impress upon the attention of the local 
authorities in our respective districts, the dangerous and fatal 
consequences likely to ensue by allowing glandered horses to 
exist, or to be suffered to go at large. 
Fungoid Tumours in the Human Being communicated 
from a Quadruped. 
The journal “ De la Soc. Med. de Montpelier ” states, that a 
woman in the South of France whose child had died five days 
after birth preferred afterwards to suckle a lamb instead of another 
child, or resorting to the ordinary means of preventing the secre- 
tion of milk. The woman was of a lymphatic temperament, and 
had, at one period, been subject to scrofulous glandular swellings, 
but these had long healed, and at the time in question she was in 
good health, and had no tenderness or unsoundness of the nipples. 
In about a week’s time the lamb was observed to be consi- 
derably out of health ; but it still continued to be suckled. At 
