ON GLANDERS IN MAN, &c. 
opinion of the non-contagion, too readily adopted by the greater 
part of the French veterinarians, and propagated among those of 
the army, has not, at the present day, been abandoned by many of 
those who refused to admit it when they -were young in experience 
—if, we say, the immense majority of the veterinary surgeons of 
Germany, of England*, of Belgium, of Italy, and Spain, do not be¬ 
lieve in the contagion of glanders—the fact of the transmission ol‘ 
glanders to the human being, observed in Germany and in Eng¬ 
land, and described by us at I’Hopital de la Charite, and I’Hotel 
Dieu, and by many of our colleagues in the public schools, as An- 
dral, Bouillaud, Husson, and by several of our young friends, as 
Nonat, Becquarrie, Bouley, &c. cannot leave a moment’s doubt on 
the subject. 
To complete this demonstration, we will add, that we have re¬ 
corded the effect of glanders in the human being, in the horse, and 
the ass, inoculating them with plain and undoubted glanders. This 
experiment has been repeated by other persons, and with tlie same 
result. 
Glanders, however, is not equally transmissible to every species of 
animal. Among the solipedes, it is much more easily communicated 
to the ass than the horse, and develops itself with a promptitude 
and an intensity most remarkable. This has been long well known 
to experimentalists, who always avail themselves of this animal 
when they wish to develop acute glanders artificially. 
The comparative study of glanders in the different species of 
animals, and particularly in the solipede and in man, demonstrates 
that the symptomatic expression of the disease undergoes some 
modifications in the different patients, which, without preventing the 
recognition of the identity of the malady, deserve, nevertheless, to 
be pointed out. 
V^eterinary surgeons, in order to ascertain the existence or non¬ 
existence of glanders in the horse, attend especially to three symp¬ 
toms,—a discharge from the nostrils more or less abundant, en¬ 
largement of the submaxillary lymphatic glands, and ulceration of 
the mucous membrane of the nasal fossa?. In some cases, however, 
in the human being, these symptoms have been very obscure, or 
could with difficulty be said to exist during life. In two cases 
they were not found at all. At the commencement of the disease, 
this morbid discharge from the nostrils, on which veterinary sur¬ 
geons lay so much stress, sometimes does not exist, or does not 
manifest itself until th(‘ disease has alreadv been recognized bv 
* 'fhese gentlemen are p'erfectiv in error liere. 'I'here was a time when 
the non-contagiousness of glanders was advocated l)y a s{)eculative professor, 
to the utter ruin of many a young surgeon ; but this is gone by, we trust for 
ever.—Y. 
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