COMMUNICATION OF GLANDERS. 
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Snewing, and others, and which Mr. W. Percivall has quoted in 
his Hippopathology, some difficulty was experienced by the 
operators in preventing the retraction of the stump of the penis 
within the prepuce before the hsemorrhage had been arrested ; 
I was therefore induced to adopt a somewhat novel mode of 
operation, which entirely freed me from the unpleasantness to 
which those gentlemen were subjected. 
The patient having been cast and properly secured, I passed a 
straight-pointed scalpel through the substance of the penis a little 
above the urethra, and at one incision divided the corpora caver- 
nosa and the vessels on its dorsum close to the prepuce. The 
haemorrhage from the pudic arteries was not so much as might 
have been expected, and was speedily arrested by the judicious 
application of the actual cautery. The urethra and corpus spon- 
giosum were now divided, and the stump immediately retracted. 
Several small arterial trunks situate in the integuments which 
had been divided were arrested in like manner by the cautery, 
and the patient was allowed to be freed from his shackles. 
The only after-treatment adopted was frequent ablutions, of 
tepid water, until all consecutive inflammation had subsided, and 
an aperient administered occasionally. 
In ten days he resumed his work, and no untoward circumstance 
ever resulted to prevent a happy termination of the case. 
November 25. — The end of the stump has cicatrized com- 
pletely, and he voids his urine without any obstruction. 
THE COMMUNICATION OF GLANDERS FROM ONE 
HUMAN BEING TO ANOTHER. 
The case of a man affected with acute glanders communicat- 
ing the malady to another person was, until the last month, 
without example. M. Rocher, medical student at the hospital 
of Necker, was charged with the dressing of a patient affected, 
first, with chronic farcy, and, subsequently, with acute glanders, 
under which he died. The dressing of the patient occasioned 
daily contact between him and the pupil : moreover, the latter, 
too zealous in the pursuit of science, prolonged the time of his 
continuance with the patient in examining all the symptoms of 
the disease minutely. M. Rocher took also an active part in 
the examination of the body after death, and during the time 
that the nasal fossse were being sawn he maintained the head 
immoveable by placing his hands over the integuments of the 
temple and face, which were the seat of the gangrenous erup- 
tion of the disease. 
