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that, one after the other, these “remedies” have fallen into disre- 
pute, is the best proof of their inefficacy. In fact, we have yet to 
learn whether true cataract is capable of being cured by remedial 
measures without having recourse to operation. I b'elieve that, 
under certain circumstances, the disease may be retarded by 
treatment ; but 1 fear that the present state of our knowledge 
will not honestly carry us beyond this point. 
GLANDERS IN THE HUMAN SUBJECT. 
[From the “Dublin Journal of Medical Science.”] 
Dr. Hutton said that, as four or five cases of glanders in the 
human subject had, within a comparatively short period, come 
under his own notice, or that of the surgeons of the House of 
Industry, he was anxious briefly to lay them before the society, 
and also to exhibit a specimen of the disease as it had manifested 
itself in the lungs of a patient who died about two days before. 
Previous, however, to entering on this case, he would read the 
details of another, in which some experiments were made with the 
view of testing the character of the poison, and ascertaining 
whether it was glanders or not. One of the results of these was, 
that an ass, inoculated with matter taken from the patient, was in 
due course attacked with the disease. 
The case was recorded by Mr. Rutherford, one of the resident 
pupils of the hospital, for whose accuracy Dr. Hutton could 
vouch. 
The patient, a young man, named P. Kelly, aged about twenty, 
was admitted in Richmond Hospital on the 2(!th of August 1838. 
On admission, his face presented that peculiar aspect which is 
so characteristic of glanders ; the left half was very much swollen, 
tense, and shining, the redness fading away gradually and be- 
coming lost in the surrounding integuments. 
Both eyes, but particularly the left eye, were closed from in- 
flammation and oedema of the lids. The left ear was swollen, 
of a dark red or livid colour, and the patient was quite deaf on 
that side. The glands of the left side of the jaw and face were 
enlarged and indurated ; and he complained of a feeling of 
numbness in the whole of that side of the head and face. About 
an inch and a half in front of the ear there was a large flaccid 
vesicle. There were also two pustules on the face, one of which 
had burst and was sloughing. On various parts of the body 
there were numerous pustules in different states, from the first to 
the more advanced stages. 
