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ence is expressed as to the cause. That it is equally
fatal to man is proved by the deaths that take place from
time to time of men having become inocculated with
the disease through some accidental cause. The South
Durham Herald, of March 28th, 1874, alludes to the sad
fact that a miner at the Castle Eden Colliery had died
from blood poisoning consequent upon the introduction
of the virus of glanders into his system. The extract I
make relating to this melancholy occurrence says " That
Joseph Hall, a miner, washed his hands in a trough from
which a pony suffering from this disease had drunk, he at
the time having an open wound on his right hand. The
day following his hand was much swollen, the swelling
gradually increased, and in a short time his whole body
was a mass of corruption. He died on Wednesday morn-
ing. Dr. Wilson, who had attended him, gave a certifi-
cate that the deceased died from blood poisoning, caused
by inocculation from a glandered horse. The deceased
was only 24 years of age, and had been recently married."
In the same month vv T
e find this note made in the
Veterinary Record, " A veterinary surgeon of the French
Army, named M. Nicoulean, had died from acute glanders,
the result of inocculatian while dissecting the carcase of a
horse which was affected with that disease. The sub-
maxilliary lymphatic of the animal was enlarged, and
the characteristic discharge and ulceration were present,
but the unfortunate gentleman could not trace any signs
of the distinctive tubercles in the pulmonary tissue not-
withstanding the most careful search, and in cutting the
mucous membrane of the nostril his knife slipped and
punctured his finger. Notwithstanding that every pre^