GLAND JO ItS IN TIIK HUMAN BEING. 
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rectum. 1 expected to have considerable difficulty in this, but 
it was easily managed by having the two hind legs held in an 
upright position. The instant, however, that the hand was re- 
moved and the legs let down, the rectum was again protruded. 
I afterwards succeeded in keeping it up by means of two sutures, 
which remained in three or four days ; and, after repeating the 
medicine a few days, and giving a little starch gruel in the por- 
ridge of the animal, it perfectly recovered, and is now doing 
quite as well as any of its companions. 
TWO CASES OF GLANDERS IN THE HUMAN 
BEING, CURED BY CREOSTOTE. 
By Mr . J. P. Cheetham, London . 
The susceptibility of the human frame to contract those dire 
maladies designated glanders and farcy, has now unfortunately 
been almost as clearly demonstrated as its want of power to 
resist the virus of rabies. It is with much pleasure that I am 
enabled to direct the attention of the readers of your useful Journal 
to two cases of glanders in men, that have been successfully 
treated. 
A summary detail pertaining to the appearance and history of 
the affected horse will exhibit the nature of the disease. 
In the month of April last, I was requested to examine a bay 
horse declared to have a common cold, with secretion of pus 
from the nostrils, but which had continued during an inordinate 
time. A person who shall be nameless forwarded some balls 
that were said to be infallible. The owner, in order to be assured 
that they were administered, gave them himself ; but not being- 
very expert in this occupation, he lost a part of the cuticle from 
the knuckle of the fore finger. 
The symptoms presented by the horse were, the glanderous 
discharge with the fetid effluvium ; extensive ulceration of the 
pituitary membrane covering the nasal septum ; enlarged and 
indurated lymphatic glands, occupying nearly the whole space 
between the posterior maxillary bones, projecting beyond their 
margins, and displaying themselves even to the sight ; and the 
cough short and difficult, indicating the tubercular condition of the 
respiratory organs. His coat and outward appearance, however, 
presented an apparently healthy aspect. 
My advice was to destroy him, being certain of his death, 
and likewise knowing the danger of propagating the disease to 
other horses, and to the persons who were in attendance. 
The owner was unwilling to sacrifice his favourite, and pressed 
