110 REVIEW—GLANDERS IN THE HUMAN BEING. 
without phlegmonous engorgement at their base, without any 
morbid heat, and without any pain accompanying them, except 
one on the calf of the left leg, which presented a distinct circum¬ 
scribed nucleus. Three of these abscesses were opened: the 
pus which they contained was yellow, and holding in suspension 
a more solid, whiter matter, analagous to the centre of common 
furuncles. The other abscesses, examined after death, contained 
a purulent, red-coloured sanious fluid. At the sacrum, on the 
external part of the foot, and particularly on the malleoli, the 
skin presented some violet-coloured spots, seemingly the precur¬ 
sors of gangrene. 
This collection of lesions immediately reminded me of those 
observed by Dr. Elliotson, and recorded in his valuable work on 
“ Glanders in the Human Subject.’’ They were precisely similar 
cases, and I could have no doubt of the nature of this disease. 
I requested the particular attention of my honourable colleagues 
to the case, and MM. Andral and Velpeau, after carefully examin¬ 
ing the patient, adopted the same diagnostic. 
M. VigTa then went to the residence of Prost, at La Chapelle- 
St.-Denis, and there he found that this poor fellow had slept in 
a stable in which several glandered horses had lately been placed, 
and that M, Leblanc was the veterinary attendant on that esta¬ 
blishment. M. Leblanc informed us, that Prost, some days before 
his admission into the hospital, had really slept several successive 
nights in a stable which had contained a mare that, afterwards, 
died of acute farcy and glanders. The journal of the infirmary con¬ 
tained the following record of this mare : “La Percheronne, from 
Montrouge, arrived at La Chapelle on January the 27th. She 
had entered the infirmary at No. 1, on the 20th. It was ascer¬ 
tained that she was glandered, and discharged from both nostrils. 
There were also evident symptoms of farcy on the cheek, and at 
the shoulders.” M. Leblanc added, that she had acute glanders 
and farcy, and was sent to the knacker on the 1st of February. 
This, of course, confirmed me in the opinion that Prost had 
died of acute farcy and glanders ; and that opinion acquired a 
new degree of assurance, when M. Leblanc, having seen the sick 
man, took the same view of the subject, and brought it to the 
test of an experiment that will hereafter be mentioned. 
The prostration of strength in our patient continued to in¬ 
crease—the mouth was open—the eyes dull and covered with 
mucus—the countenance of a yellow clay colour—the tongue 
brown—the belly tumid—the urine and faeces passing involunta¬ 
rily— the respiration accelerated and loud, and the voice having- 
died quite away. He now began to expectorate thick and gluti¬ 
nous matter, but it could not be determined whether this pro¬ 
ceeded from the nose, the throat, or the chest. 
