44 IIEVIEW—GLANDERS IN THE HUMAN BEING. 
animal, or even going beyond them and embracing all living 
beings—every mode of management, or general or occasional 
treatment, which they consider to be inconsistent with true 
humanity ? And also—so far as may be—the different and more 
humane, and, perchance, more profitable mode of treatment 
which they would recommend. If letters should come, filled 
double, from every reader of The Veterinarian, he would be 
the more thankful. The particular object—not connected with 
The Veterinarian, but a good one—they shall know at some 
future period, and honourable mention shall be made of their 
kindness. 
At the same time, the Editor would hint, that communications 
intended for The Veterinarian, are at this period of the 
year doubly welcome. 
Quid sit pulchruin, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.—Hon. 
De la Morve et DU Farcin chez l’Homme. —Of Glan¬ 
ders and Farcy in the Human Being. Par P. Rayer, 
Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine, Physician to 
the Hospital de la Charitey arid consulting Physician to the 
King. Paris : chez J. P. Bailliere. 
The attention of the French medical men and veterinary sur¬ 
geons has lately been directed to this subject—the possibility 
of the communication of glanders and farcy from the horse to 
the human being,—a fact, as Dr. Rayer very properly states, 
“ is of rare occurrence, unknown to most practitioners, and the 
possibility of which is yet denied by veterinary surgeons of great 
experience.’’ 
A groom who had been attending on a glandered horse, subse¬ 
quently exhibited what were supposed by some to be verv similar 
symptoms, and died ; and the same morbid lesions as in a glan¬ 
dered horse were found in him. The affair excited a great deal 
of interest, and the question as to the real nature of the disease 
was discussed in the Royal Academy of Medicine, on three 
consecutive nights. There was difference of opinion between the 
practitioners of human medicine. Dr. Rayer fought in the 
ranks of those who advocated the jiossibility of this transmission. 
