CASE OF ACUTE GLANDERS. 
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be seen in Dupuytren’s museum, and particularly in Seraphin’s 
skeleton, the inventor of the Chinese shades in France. 
There is a curious coincidence between pathological ossifica¬ 
tion and normal ossification of the discs of the vertebrae. De¬ 
scriptive anatomy teaches us that they are everywhere of 
uniform texture, possessing identical physical properties; but 
is it not remarkable to see normal ossification so early between 
the different pieces of the sacrum, and ossification so rare in 
other parts ] To what is this difference owing 1 Probably to 
nothing more than the mobility existing in the various regions. 
Whenever vertebrae are in this manner ossified together, the 
layer of fibro-cartilage covering the ball and socket is com¬ 
pletely gone, allowing the spongy tissue of the two vertebrae to 
come into immediate contact. 
And when the vertebrae are invested in a coat of osseous 
matter, longitudinal section of the spine lays open to view a 
thickened condition of the fibro-cartilage, from which the spine 
derives, in addition to augmentation of volume, a greater degree 
of resistance. In certain parts, so great is the increase of thick¬ 
ness at times that 1 have found it amount to nearly an inch, 
according to actual measurement. 
Recueil de Mid. Vet. de Juin 1851. 
[To be continued.] 
Home Department. 
REPORT OF A CASE OF ACUTE GLANDERS, FOLLOWED 
BY RECOVERY; WITH REMARKS. 
By F. W. Mackenzie, M.D., 
Physician to the Paddington Free Dispensary for the Diseases of 
Women and Children, Fellow of University College, &c. 
It is unnecessary, at the present day, to adduce any additional 
facts or arguments to prove that glanders is a disease which is 
communicable from the horse to the human species : this has 
been completely established by the researches of many accurate 
observers, and is, I believe, generally admitted by the profes¬ 
sion at large. As, however, the recorded cases of its occurrence 
in man are not very numerous, from the fact, probably, that it 
is not readily communicated to the human race, and as, conse¬ 
quently, many points relating to the pathology of the disease are 
obscure, it is presumed that the report of an additional case will 
not be unacceptable to the profession. I therefore subjoin the 
particulars of one which has lately been under my care, and 
have added some remarks, which have been suggested by a 
consideration of it. 
