50 REVIEW—GLANDERS IN THE HUMAN BEING. 
The matter discharged, however, is so profuse, thick, and an¬ 
noying, that the animal suffers severely from it: it is a kind of 
suffering which nature never designed him to endure,—she 
speedily begins to be debilitated by it, and that process takes 
place—that change of seat or character in the disease, or both of 
them, of which the human practitioner sees little—the extent of 
which in the solipede he can scarcely credit, but of which the 
veterinary surgeon has too frequent proof—glanders, the natural 
termination of every disease of the horse, breaks out, and death 
is not far distant. 
But the unfortunate youth whose health and life were destroy¬ 
ed by this inoculation, what shall we say of him ? In a few hours 
after the accident he feels chilly—head-ach comes on—a swell¬ 
ing—singularly enough—appears in the opposite axilla—and 
then he first begins to think of the w^ound, which is becoming in¬ 
flamed with red lines proceeding from it up the arm, while tumours 
and abscesses appear on various parts of his frame. His friends 
and his preceptor naturally institute certain experiments. Pro¬ 
fessor Coleman inoculates an ass with the matter taken from one 
of the ulcers, and the animal died glandered. Mr. James Turner 
inoculates two asses with the same matter, and both of them died 
glandered. There w'as no failure in either of the experiments, as 
Dr. Elliotson states in his excellent publication on this subject. 
Seven or eight months had elapsed before these experiments 
were made. 
The poor youth still continuing to fade slowly away, Mr. 
James Turner, two months afterwards, resolved to institute ano¬ 
ther experiment. He had a valuable two-year old healthy colt; 
he inoculated him with matter from one of the abscesses. The 
matter was applied in the same way as to the asses—it was rub¬ 
bed on the Schneiderian membrane—it was inserted beneath the 
jaws—the edges of the nostrils were pared, and the virus well 
rubbed in, and punctures were made on the inside of both arms 
and thighs. Strange to say, no effect was produced. The youth 
still wastes away, and, at length, dies without one trace of glan¬ 
ders about the nostril or the face—without the slightest nasal 
discharge,—and with his mental faculties unimpaired. 
Was this a case of glanders? The strong inclination of our 
opinion is, that it was not. The time when the constitutional af¬ 
fection was first perceived, so early as eight hours after the inflic¬ 
tion of the wound—the inflammation first shewing itself about the 
axilla, although it was the opposite one—the slight affection of 
the wounded part, which, in point of fact, had not been examined 
or recollected until after the tumour in the axilla had commenced 
and progressed—these look more like the constitutional disturb- 
