A Study of Chronic Glanders in Man; With Report of a Case, Analysis of 156 Cases Collected from the Literature, and an Appendix of the Incidence of

This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHRONIC GLANDERS IN MAN. Historical. Glanders has been recognized as a common disease among the equidae for many centuries. Aristotle and Hippocrates mention glanders and farcy in the ass. Solleysel in 1682 reaffirmed the ancient doctrine of contagion and the relation between glanders and farcy, and still, over 150 years later the doctrine of contaagion was not generally accepted. Viborg in 1797 proved the contagious nature of the disorder by numerous experiments. He also showed that drying or heating destroyed the contagion, and recommended hot water as a means of disinfecting glandered stables. In spite of these and other clear proofs, in France glanders was generally considered a spontaneous disease, and no measures were taken to prevent its spread among the horses of the French army till 1854. Knowledge of glanders as a human disease is not yet a century old. Van Helmont, Ricord and Beau regarded glanders in the horse and syphilis in man as identical, and in this light doubtless some cases of human glanders were considered. According to Rayer the first hint of the transmissibility of glanders to man is given by Waldinger, who in 1810 pointed out that inoculation of pus from glandered animals to man may cause death. However, Osiander in 1783 and DelabereBlaine in 1803 had previously noted similar occurrences. Schilling's case, which is included in the present series, is generally regarded as the first case of unmistakable human glanders published (1821). Weiss's case, also synopsized in our series, and that of Muscroft, an acute case that occurred in Great Britain and was definitely diagnosed as glanders, immediately followed. One of Travers's British cases occurred in 1817, but was not published till later (1826). Unfortunately Travers and Coleman, who i...