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and the identity of the disease in the quadruped and the biped. 
He was supported by some veterinary surgeons; but the opinion 
of the great majority of these gentlemen was, that this trans¬ 
mission has never yet been proved to have taken place, and, in 
point of fact, is impossible. This is a very natural and almost 
necessary consequence of their belief that chronic glanders, at 
least, is never contagious. 
Dr. Rayer was not content with what he had said and done 
at the Academy, but he has published a work on the subject, 
interesting, on account of its research, and the facts which his 
intimacy with MM. Dupuy and Leblanc has enabled him to 
adduce; and he maintains that, under certain conditions and 
susceptibilities, not only glanders may be communicated by con¬ 
tagion from the quadruped to the biped, but that the occasional 
infection is far from improbable. 
Dr. Rayer first enters into the history of this disease, or of 
aftections that have been mistaken for it. There is no satisfac¬ 
tory proof of its occurrence until some years after the commence¬ 
ment of the present century. Professor Waldinger, of Vienna, in 
the year 1810, advises his students to be very cautious in exa¬ 
mining the carcasses of horses that had died glandered and 
farcied, because serious accidents, and even death, had resulted 
from inoculation with the matter of glanders. 
In 1811, Dr. Lorin, principal veterinary surgeon to the first 
regiment of Carabineers, says that a veterinary surgeon was 
attacked with considerable inflammation of his fingers, in conse¬ 
quence of having pricked himself in operating on a farcied horse ; 
and that, after having employed emollients without effect, the 
little tumours which were forming were extirpated, and the 
wounds washed with turpentine ; after which the patient speedily 
got well. 
Dr. Weith, another veterinary surgeon, says that, in dissecting 
glandered animals, or when the matter of glanders is received 
into the eye, there is sometimes violent inflammatio’i of the fingers 
or the eyelids. 
In 1817, M. Sidow, a military surgeon at Dusseldorf, pub¬ 
lished it as his opinion, that glanders is communicable from the 
horse to the human being ; and he appeals to his own experience, 
says he some students having pricked themselves icilh the 
matter of glanders^ have had ulcers of a had character.’^ 
In 1821, M. Schiller, Professor Naumann, of the veterinary 
school of Berlin, and the Assistant Professor, M. Ilolbach, 
having been interrogated as to their experience relative to the 
transmission of glanders from tlie horse to the human being, 
replied that they knew not any case in which a glandered horse, 
