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GLANDERS IN MAN AND THE HORSE. 
the Nile and Astaboras, northward, are, once a year, obliged 
to change their abode, and seek protection in the sands of 
Beja ; nor is there any alternative, or means of avoiding this, 
though a hostile band was in the way, capable of spoiling 
them of half their substance, as was actually the case when 
we were at Sennaar.” 
Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
GLANDERS IN MAN AND THE HORSE. 
By C. C. Grice, M.R.C.V.S., New York. 
The prevalence at this time of that direful disease in 
horses, the glanders, induces me to address you, knowing 
your willingness to give publicity to anything that benefits 
mankind. My object in sending you this communication, is 
to show the necessity of our taking every possible precaution 
as regards this destructive and loathsome disease. The 
value of the animals afflicted should be a secondary con- 
sideration ; the risk to human life in having the least com- 
munication with the unfortunate beast should induce their 
owners to have them speedily destroyed. The communica- 
bility of glanders from the horse to the human subject no 
longer remains in doubt. Till within the last few years it was 
believed that horses only were susceptible to glanders, but 
the writings and experiments of many scientific human as 
well as Veterinary Surgeons have established the fact, that 
the human subject is liable to contract this disease, either by 
means of inoculation or contact with glandered animals. 
In proportion as the disease has become known, cases of 
death have multiplied to a fearful extent, and each fresh 
medical journal narrates some new victim to this loathsome 
malady. 
Many students at the different Veterinary Colleges in 
Europe, I am sorry to say, have fallen victims to this great 
scourge. By examining the list of deaths in the Veteri- 
narian , from 1825 to the present date, I find that the mor- 
tality has been alarming. There is one well-authenticated 
case in Ireland of a whole family dying with glanders, and 
in this country I think it has been equally fatal. We have 
one sorrowful case to relate of Dr. Stoughtenberg, an emi- 
