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goons, when quartered in Italy, in March, 1809, had 

 seventj'-six horses at one time affected with glanders 

 and farcy. 



There are many instances on record of human beings 

 being inoculated with the matter from glandered horses, 

 and the result has been a horrible death, the symptoms 

 being similar to those in hydrophobia. I know a noto- 

 rious horse-coper myself, who, while offering a glandered 

 horse for sale in a fair, kept continually wiping the mat- 

 ter from the nostrils with his handkerchief, and getting 

 into a brawl aftewards, the skin of his face was abrased, 

 the handkerchief was applied, and the part inoculated. 

 Nothing could arrest the disease, and the coper was, to 

 all intents and purposes, glandered, and had the farcy ; 

 he suffered the most excruciating agony, until at last 

 death put a period to his sufferings. It was said (some 

 years ago) that the wife of Jemmy Massey, the pugilist, 

 died from glanders taken from her husband's horses by 

 some means. Massey, after his retirement from the 

 ring, became a cab proprietor, living in an apartment 

 over the stables, in London. In conclusion, I may add, 

 that by the laws of Great Britain, a glandered horse may 

 be destroyed if found working in a public thoroughfare, 

 the usual course being first to summon the owner before a 

 magistrate, who will, on proof being given by a qualified 

 veterinary surgeon, order the destruction of the animal 

 forthwith. 



