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Quid sit pulchruni, quid turpo, quid utile, quid non.—H or. 
De la Morve et DU Farcin chez l’Hom.me: —Of Glan¬ 
ders and Farcy in the Unman Being. By P. Rayek, 
Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine, Physician to 
the Hospital de la Charite, and Consulting Physician to the 
King. Bailliere, Paris and London. 
Whatever may be thought of the real nature of the disease 
in the melancholy case of Mr. W. Turner, and which occurred 
in 1819 instead of 1821, as stated in our last journal, Dr. Rayer 
proceeds to state others, collected with most praiseworthy research, 
and amounting in the whole to nearly forty. Among them are 
those recorded by Dr. Elliotson in his valuable papers in the 
Medico-chirurgical Transactions. A few of them may be liable 
to objection. They may, like that of Mr. Turner, be traced to 
mere irritationj as in the empoisoned wounds of dissection ; but 
in a very great majority of them, the identity of the symptoms 
in the human being with those of glanders and farcy, in both 
the acute and the chronic form, in the horse, is so complete, as 
not to leave the slightest doubt that man is susceptible of these 
diseases. At some future period we may probably translate a 
few of them, for they are very singular ones; but at present we 
will confine ourselves to the introduction of that which was the 
subject of so much discussion in the Royal Academy of Medi¬ 
cine at Paris. Dr. Rayer attended the man through the whole 
of his illness, and superintended the post-mortem examination. 
It is altogether the most circumstantial and the best case on 
record ; and we shall give it with very slight abbreviation. 
Prost, a groom, aged fifty-eight years, and of not very sober 
habits, became ill early in the month of February, 1837, and was 
brought to the Hospital de la Charite on the 9th of that month. 
No positive information could be obtained from him as to the 
nature of his disease ,* but he said he had not been well for a 
considerable time; and we learned afterwards that he had been 
compelled to keep his bed during the last four or five days. 
On the 10th he exhibited the following symptoms, and which 
M. Vigla, the assistant surgeon, had noticed on the preceding 
evening :—tie lay on his back, with a stupid expression of coun¬ 
tenance, and slight impairment and disorder of intelligence. lie 
would answer tolerably well to the first question that was 
addressed to him ; but he would rapidly pass from it, and 
wander from subject to subject, without any connexion of ideas. 
He said that he felt himself very feeble ; that at the commence- 
