REVIEW—GLANDERS IN THE HUMAN BEING. 
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ance occasioned by wounds in dissection. It is precisely the 
history of the commencement and progress of one of these cases. 
But the animal whose head he was preparing, and by a spicula 
from which he was wounded, died glandered. That might or 
might not have influenced the form and progress of the disease ; 
for usually the infection and all its fatal consequences seem to 
have no connexion whatever with the nature of the disease of 
which the person dies : it occurs, and with the same symptoms, 
after diseases of the most opposite character; is influenced only 
by the progress of time, for, when decomposition commences, this 
poison ceases to have existence. 
The disease of the three asses was undoubtedly glanders : but 
these animals died much after the usual period that intervenes be¬ 
tween the inoculation of the ass with the matter of glanders and 
his death. In Mr. Coleman’s case, the ass died on the twelfth 
day of the experiment. In both of Mr. Turner’s cases a fortnight 
or more elapsed : there was sufficient time for the diseased puru¬ 
lent matter to take effect, and to debilitate the constitution, and 
for glanders, as in many other cases, to supervene as the windino* 
up of all. 
Two months afterwards he inoculates a colt with other matter 
taken from the same patient. He spares no labour to secure the 
effect of it, but the colt is uninjured. This could not result from 
the matter of glanders having lost it poisonous property, for we 
have many records of animals being infected by the virus taken 
from the dead subject; or of there being an immunity in this colt 
against infection from the virus of glanders, for of this we have 
not a record on our books; but it arose from one of two things — 
that the pus secreted in these abscesses, and not being of a glan¬ 
derous nature, had somewhat changed its properties, or that the 
colt had too sound and unimpaired a constitution to be affected 
by this source of irritation and disease. 
We are perhaps trespassing on ground that should be occu- 
])ied by others. The review of Dr. Rayer’s valuable work shall 
be continued in a future number. Y. 
i2xtract0* 
Cases of Difficult Parturition. 
Dy M. G. Canu, Thorigni. 
Many authors have treated in too succinct a manner, and 
others have omitted entirely, the mention of certain obstacles to 
parturition in our domestic quadrupeds, whether dependent on 
the unnatural situation of one or more of the limbs of the foetus. 
