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that city assigns the cause as glanders. The brief history of 
the case is as follows: Hopkins owned a horse which had 
been running down in flesh, and he was administering some 
alterative at the suggestion of a “ horsey ” neighbor. In giv¬ 
ing a bolus his hand became slightly lacerated against the 
horse’s teeth, but he continued to treat him. His nostrils 
began to discharge, but still he did not suspect the true nature 
of the ailment, and went about the horse as before, frequently 
sponging out the discharge with no precautions. Meantime 
the horse grew worse, and “farcy buds” showed themselves 
upon the hind extremities. About this time (July ioth) Hop¬ 
kins was seized with a chill, and took to his bed, his physician 
diagnosing his case as “ threatened typhoid fever,” afterwards 
modifying it into “malaria.” On the 15th the horse was 
destroyed by an officer of the Society lor the Prevention of 
Cruelty to Animals, he exhibiting the cardinal symptoms of 
glanders and farcy. The owner of the horse gradually grew 
worse, and on the 31st another physician was called, who, 
with the history of his contact with his diseased horse, and 
the now rapidly developing local symptoms, at once made out 
a diagnosis of glanders, and the patient died on the morning 
of the 4th, having been unconscious for about forty-eight 
hours. The local symptoms are stated by the physician to 
have consisted of a chain of suppurating lymphatic glands 
along the outside of one leg, swelling of the feet, nodules upon 
the brow and neck, and at other points about the body, dis¬ 
charge from the nostrils, and physical symptoms of glander¬ 
ous pneumonia. The temperature is stated to have never 
exceeded 103° F., though the patient received antipyretics 
whenever it reached that registry. 
An Interesting Event.— Dr. John W. Gadsden, of Phil¬ 
adelphia, President of the St. George’s Society of that city, 
and a veterinarian of national reputation, and Mrs. Lucy M. 
Michener, widow of the late Prof. Charles B. Michener, who 
was formerly connected with the Agricultural Department 
and with various veterinary colleges, were married recently 
at the Church of the Incarnation, in presence of a large con- 
