720 INOCULATION OF A MAN BY NASAL DISCHARGE OF A HORSE. 
little redder than usual, but its appearance only slightly dif¬ 
fered from that in a healthy horse. The horse was sleek and 
fat, and with the exception of the nasal discharge appeared 
healthy. 
The object of making the examination was to ascertain 
whether the horse was glandered or not; I had no hesitation 
in deciding that he was not glandered. This horse belonged 
to a man who drove him in a public carriage (here styled a 
hack), with another horse which he had hired from Mr. 
Williams to work with him. It was some time before Mr. 
Williams noticed that the hackman’s horse had a nasal dis¬ 
charge, but when he did so, he requested me to examine 
him with the view of ascertaining whether it was safe to 
have his own horse worked with him. I did so, and found 
him affected as already described, and I may mention that 
this was the first examination of the horse, and that the one 
already named was made a month or two afterwards. 
Originally I stated that, although the horse was not 
glandered, still I considered it unsafe to work a sound 
horse in the same carriage, as he might contract the disease. 
This determined Mr. Williams to take his horse from the 
hackman, who was very much displeased with the opinion 
which I had given, as he maintained stoutly that the horse’s 
nasal discharge was quite harmless, and could not be com¬ 
municated to any other horse. 
The hackman’s horse, I believe, was never subjected to any 
medical treatment, he believing, as he had said, that the 
disease was harmless. Shortly after my first examination the 
hackman happened to cut the end of his thumb, and in work¬ 
ing about his horse he was inoculated with the nasal dis¬ 
charge, but thinking the discharge harmless he did not take 
the precaution of washing his hands. In fact, he was violently 
prejudiced against the idea of the disease being contagious. 
The cut on his thumb ulcerated, and the lymphatics of his 
arm swelled, and an abscess formed in the lymphatic glands 
of the armpit, which was followed by several large ulcers on his 
breast. I believe ten months elapsed from the time of his 
inoculation to the time of his recovery. Two or three 
months after his inoculation I met him accidentally, and as 
what had happened in the interval had somewhat changed 
his opinion as to the correctness of my judgment, he gave me 
a description of his case, in which I was much interested, and 
he also showed me two large ulcers on his breast, one of 
which was as large as the palm of my hand, and the other a 
little smaller. 
The man after having been under the treatment of a sur- 
