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GLANDERS IN THE HUMAN BEING. 
returning the thanks of our brethren to the talented professor 
for the light which he has thrown on a subject that comes 
home to our business and bosoms; and in the meantime we beg 
leave to return our warmest acknowledgments to Drs. Elliotson, 
Roots, and Williams (the man was the patient of the latter of 
these gentlemen), and also to Mr. Stone, for the facilities they 
so kindly afforded us at the bed-side of the sufferer, and at the 
post-mortem examination. Truly grateful should we be for any 
opportunity to observe how others of these diseases, common 
to the biped and the quadruped, and particularly rabies, are mo¬ 
dified by the different structure and functions and character of 
the two. Information here should be the common stock of the 
human and the veterinary surgeon ; and we exult that, in this 
respect at least, we are beginning to outlive the undeserved de¬ 
gradation of our profession. 
We are sorry to say that the experiment on the ass was, in some 
degree, a failure. When we reached home, we were grieved to find 
that one of our pupils, ignorant of the purpose to which the 
animal was devoted, and thinking that it was intended merely 
for dissection, had been taking a lesson in bleeding on the poor 
beast. We did not see anything, however, in this which would 
vitiate the experiment, and inoculated the donkey on the ala of 
the nostril, on either side; and, taking out the pin, we cleansed the 
glasses between which the matter had been preserved on the edge 
of the wound in the neck. 
On the second day tumefaction commenced about the wound,— 
on the third day it was evident that there was considerable 
phlebitis; there was, however, no appearance of immediate 
danger, but on the fourth morning the ass was found dead. 
Our young friend had not hit the vein at first: there was a 
deep and almost lacerated wound of the subjacent muscle; 
effusion into the neighbouring cellular texture had ensued— 
inflammation was established—aggravated, perhaps, by the appli¬ 
cation of the poison to the edges of the wound,—the inflammation 
spread rapidly downward —it reached the heart, and the animal 
died. There was no other apparent cause of death. The scarifi¬ 
cations on the nostril were not in the slightest degree inflamed. 
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