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oi<ler, if possible, to save his life. S)me twc 

 weeks subsequently, a farmer stopping at the 

 hotel, supposing himself well acquainted witn 

 such diseases, offered Mr. W. $75 for the horse, 

 asserting at the same time that it was only the 

 distemper that ailed him, and he could cure any 

 horse of that disease. Mr. W. immediately con- 

 sulted me in regard to the propriety of selling 

 the horse : my advice was, under the circum- 

 stances, to clear himself of all responribility. 

 The result was the horse was sold. Some six 

 months later, I learned that the horse was dead, 

 together with two other animals belonging to the 

 same unfortunate purchaser. 



Sometime last spring, Mr. P., residing near 

 Pemberton, New Jersey, purchased a horse which 

 showed, as be thought, symptoms of "distemper ;'* 

 for some reason or other, Mr. P. did not keep 

 this animal long, but sold him to a Mr. J., re- 

 sidi«ig some two miles distant. Soon after Mr. 

 P. parted with this animal, he sent another horse 

 belonging to him to me for examination which 

 had been previously treated for nasal gleet. 

 This animal I unhesitatingly pronounced glan- 

 dered, and recommended his destruction ; the 

 animal, however, died in a few days, since which 

 time another of Mr. P.'s horses has shown symp- 

 toms of the same disease. Subsequently I was 

 called to see the horses belonging to Mr. .7., who 

 had lost three animals since the purchase of Mr. 

 P.'s horse, and had two more sick with the same 

 fatal disease, all of which had been treated ir 



