176 HORSE-TRAINING MADE EASY. 



Death from Glanders. — A blacksimia, 

 named George Spence, residiDg at Aunadarragh, 

 and aged about forty years, was admitted into 

 the County Infirmary on the 27th May last, suffer- 

 ing from glanders. Notwithstanding all the 

 efforts of medical skill, the unfortunate man 

 expired on the 7th ult. This loathsome disease 

 must have been communicated to the deceased 

 by some horse which he was shoeing. As it is 

 now well known that glanders is incurable, ani- 

 mals infected with the disease should be des- 

 troyed as soon as the first symptoms are mani- 

 fested. — Veterinary Review^ 1862. 



From time to time, cases of glanders or farcy 

 are reported as occurring in the human subject, 

 but the frequency with which such reports meet 

 the public eye bear no relation to the actual 

 number of cases which are observed. As with 

 several other forms of disease due to animal 

 poisons, there are many cases overlooked, and 

 never diagnosed. We have a law referring to 

 glandered horses, to their use and sale, but we 

 )an state from experience that the law is evaded. 

 V^eterinary surgeons are not disposed to insist on 

 ihe immediate slaughter of any glandered horse 

 khey meet with in practice. Cases of farcy are 

 )ften much neglected, and the result is the spread 

 jf disease. Information lias reached us of 

 glandered horses sold by public auction, of ani- 

 mals similarly affected being worked in LondoF 

 omnibuses, and it is well known that glandei< 

 has proved unusually destructive within the las* 



