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pected, and I only came to that conclusion by a process of 
exclusion, that is, by excluding the symptoms of every other 
disease that I had knowledge of; and this disease answered 
so well to that described by writers on glanders that I had 
no hesitation in coming to the conclusion that this disease 
could be none other than glanders. Seeing the boy described 
as a miner, I thought it probable he might have charge of 
horses, and on making inquiries of the mother she told me 
he had care of some horses at the bottom of the pit, and this 
confirmed my suspicion. The evidence I have heard has not 
altered my opinion in the least, and I am still of opinion 
that the cause of death was glanders. Dr. Goodridge saw 
the case, and is of the same opinion. The eruption bears 
some resemblance to smallpox, but is larger, and no depres¬ 
sion in the centre. I have never heard of glanders being 
engendered in the human subject; it may be so in horses, 
from living on board ship or in a confined place. I think 
there are one or two instances on record of persons recovering 
from chronic, but not from acute, glanders. Glanders chiefly 
affects the cavity of the nose; farcy shows itself in small 
abscesses running down the arms and legs. The matter of 
glanders will produce farcy, and that of farcy will produce 
glanders—the poison is identical. 
The Coroner , in his summing up, remarked on the satis¬ 
factory nature of the evidence, which entirely exonerated the 
owners and those having the management of the pit. And 
though they had been unsuccessful in ascertaining whence 
the deceased caught the infection which caused his death, 
the inquest would not have been held in vain, if it made the 
public more alive to the exceedingly dangerous nature of the 
disease. 
The Jury found that the deceased died of glanders; but 
how caught, there was not sufficient evidence to show 7 . 
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF 
SCIENCE. 
We have condensed the following from the reports of the 
meetings of the above association lately held at Cambridge, as 
being more or less interesting to our readers : 
FOOT-POISON OF NEW ZEALAND. 
Dr. Lindsay, F.R.S., contributed a paper on “The Foot- 
Poisonof New 1 Zealand/'aplant which produced great mortality 
