On the glanders in the human subject / by John Elliotson.

  • Elliotson, John, 1791-1868.
Date:
1830
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Credit: On the glanders in the human subject / by John Elliotson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    affecting human beings, now seemed fully ex- plained by the supposition, that the disease was one common to some of our brutes ; and the profuse discharge from the nostrils, and the tumours and tubercular pustules on the surface, agreed witli the supposition, tliat this disease was the glanders. I had no time, however, to open the number of the Gazette immediately ; and, on calling upon Mr. Alcock, he enquired if 1 had seen the Gazette, because he had read a case in it which he thought might throw some light upon the two which I had so frequently mentioned to him, and the inspec- tion of one of which he had witnessed. I read the case, and found my prepossession fully substan- tiated. A fine, healthy corporal in the 2d regiment of Dragoons, the surgeon of which, Mr. Brown, is the narrator,—aged 38, suddenly awoke, while stationed at Caher in Ireland, in the night of the 16th of April, with rigors, head-ache, and slight irritability of stomach, which in the morning were joined by depression of spirits, general disturb- ance, and stiffness and severe and constant pains of all the large joints, aggravated on the slightest motion. The pains increased to an alarming de- gree, but especially in the left shoulder, which was'somewhat tumefied at the scapula, but not inflamed. On the 24th, the tumefaction was con- siderable, and of a livid hue. Similar swellings.