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there had been a giandered horse in the stables in which he was 
a helper, and that had been long kept by itself—that he was 
accustomed to groom it—that it might be six or seven weeks 
ago when he first began to attend to it—and that for a fortnight 
or three weeks, or more, before he was admitted into the hospital^ 
he had not been able to attend as usual to his work, and did not 
know what was the matter with him. 
A wound which had been upon the back of his right hand at 
that time was perfectly healed : there was no redness or inflamma¬ 
tion about it, nor could any corded absorbent be traced from it. 
About two o’clock on the following morning he died; but some 
time before that he rallied, and gave an interesting illustration of 
the ruling passion strong in death : I am dying,” said he ; I 
shall die soon, but I shall die happy—I know now I am gian¬ 
dered—I shall die as my horses do—I shall die quite happy.” 
A post-mortem examination took place on the noon of the fol¬ 
lowing day, at which we were also permitted to be present. The 
pustules or bullse about the face and neck had all subsided. The 
puffy tumours on the forehead and back part of the head were 
gorged with a yellowish semi-transparent glairy fluid, giving to 
the whole a kind of gelatinous appearance when cut into, 
yet with scattered minute abscesses. There was neither offensive 
smell, nor decided gangrene. The pericranium was sound, and on 
dissecting to it, it was thought by some that there were minute 
granulated tuberculous substances on it, but they appeared to 
us to be only portions of this gelatinous substance left in the 
dissection. 
On raising the scull-cap, the frontal sinuses were exposed, and 
in one of them was a very small congeries or bunch of tubercles, 
or rather vesicles, hanging loosely in the cavity. 
There was no ulceration, or inflammation, or collection of pus, 
or any other fluid in the sinuses connected with the naval cavity ; 
but on the right side of the septum there was considerable in¬ 
jection, and two minute ulcers, with the preparatory vesicle of a 
third, and in a line, and following the course of the principal 
vein of the septum. The edges were decidedly elevated, and 
seemingly everted, and bore, on a small scale, no indistinct re¬ 
semblance to the glanderous chancre of the horse. 
