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ered a good portion of my face, my right hand and wrist, and 
some struck the right cuff inside and outside. The cuff was 
very stiff, and was immediately scraped with my pocket knife 
after washing off the besmeared hand and face well. It was 
about eleven o’clock, A. M., and I resolved to wash better and 
take the cuff off before dinner, having then one more animal 
to examine. However I forgot to take it off, and rode a whole 
afternoon with it on. That night at ten o’clock I was about 
to retire for the night at the Centropilis, Kansas City, and 
found the first indications of danger. That right cuff had on 
its edge a stiff, ragged point, turned out like the tooth of a 
saw ; on the inside part of this point was glanders virus, and 
the besmeared, stiff, ragged point had rubbed crosswise on the 
wrist about ten hours. It had made a one-inch long, red 
(almost raw) mark like that produced by scratching with an 
ivory point for vaccination. The friction of this cuff tooth 
with the virus on, had, in other words, produced an irritation 
sufficient to cause smarting. I washed the place well and felt 
easy enough, because I had dealt with glanders before, I may 
say, weekly during four years, and I feared the disease little. 
Four days later found me on a Wabash train on my way to 
Columbia, my home. It was early inThe morning, and I had 
slept fairly. My wrist was paining me some and felt stiff. I 
looked at it, and found what made me shiver for the first time 
since the previous winter At the very point of the irrita¬ 
ted tract was growing a little boil, slightly yellowish. I had 
no cauterization agent, (when opening my caustic case I found 
it destroyed) and I was twenty miles away from home on a 
slow train. I became rather fearful, and at once squeezed the 
vesicle. The matter looked just like that which we find in 
small farcy buds, and the bottom of ulcer was indurated. I 
scraped this out with a pocket lance, and as soon as I reached 
home 1 dropped a few drops of boiling water in it, and in a 
few days it was healed. That night I had a little fever, and 
next day I made arrangements, under advice of two physi¬ 
cians, Profs. Moss and McAlester, to goto Hot Springs, Ark., 
where I arrived the sixth day after the inoculation. 
The fifth day an epitrochlean gland at the right elbow be- 
