150 GLANDERS IN THE HUMAN BEING. 
it was ascertained that he had had a glandered horse under his 
care a month before, and that the discharge from the nose had 
often come upon his hands. The case was now sufficiently plain; 
but the patient was too far gone to admit of the slightest hope 
of cure, and the attention of the medical attendants was confined 
to the mitigation of the severest symptoms, and particularly an 
insatiable thirst with which the sufferer was tormented. Dr. 
Elliotson had the kindness to inform us of the case, thinking 
that the inspection of it would be interesting to veterinary prac¬ 
titioners. 
On Saturday, the 16th, we saw him: the appearances were as 
above described, except that the puffy tumours were assuming a 
more gangrenous character; the pustules were more numerous on 
the face and neck, but not running in any decided direction, and 
one of them on the neck was as large as a horse-bean. The dis¬ 
charge from the right nostril was more profuse; there was oc¬ 
casional discharge from the left one, and from both it was i n- 
sufferably foetid. His eyes were closed, with considerable oedema 
of the lids. On the arms and legs were numerous smaller pus¬ 
tules, which dried up and scaled off; but there were on both a few 
elevated spots, evidently in a line, and following the course of a 
lymphatic; some possessing no discolouration, others of a dark 
leaden hue, and of various degrees of hardness, and some then 
giving the perfect indication of fluid somewhat deeply seated. 
On one of the ancles, and on the back of the left hand, were more 
decided puffy swellings, acquiring rapidly a purple tinge. The 
general emaciation and debility were extreme. The thirst was 
dreadful. The poor fellow was continually crying out "‘Water! 
Water !!” and when the sister fed him with toast and water from 
a spoon-, he would cry impatiently, ‘‘That’s no use! give me half 
a pint of water—bring a pail of water—throw a pail of water 
over me.” 
We obtained permission to open one of the pustules for the 
purpose of inoculating an ass with the matter, and another was 
opened for the use of the medical officers of the hospital: then 
drawing the poor fellow into interrupted and not always intelli¬ 
gible conversation on his own subject, he again confessed that 
