GLANDERS. On5 
Glanders is provoked by human depravity. Had people common 
feeling for the life over which they are given authority—would they only 
admit, in its largeness and its truth, that “the laborer is worthy of his 
hire”—the disease might, in one year, become a tradition. 
At present the affection exists as the dread of every horse proprietor. 
It is highly contagious—all owners of horses know this. The stable 
may be scrupulously clean, yet the poison may have been lodged there 
by the last inhabitant. It is not only contagious to horses, but it is 
equally dangerous to men. ‘Three sad instances of this fact have come 
to the author’s knowledge. Two respectable gentlemen, moving in good 
society, were each contaminated, and both pitiably perished of this terri- 
ble disease. They were no stable-helpers, moving and living among 
suspicious beasts, but individuals whose avocations did not oblige them 
to mix with horses—gentlemen of professional standing, who were inoc- 
ulated they knew not how. Mr. Gowing, of Camden Town, informed 
the writer, of a boy who once went from a shop to stand at the head of 
a pony the master of which wished to make a purchase. The animal, 
while the boy was so placed, cleared its nostrils, and a portion of the 
ejected matter flew into the lad’s eye. The handkerchief removed the 
soil, and the accident was soon forgotten. However, the poor youth 
was glandered, and became a patient in the University Hospital. 
Such facts sufficiently prove all men have an interest in opposing any 
conduct likely to generate so horrible a scourge. Man, as a community, 
is answerable for the comfort of every creature intrusted to his charge. 
He may refuse to accept the conditions of the trust, but he cannot escape 
the responsibility. In proof of the truth of this conclusion, glanders is 
now recognized as one of those incurable diseases, generated by neglect, 
to which the human being is liable, in every hospital throughout the 
kingdom. 
Why is the legislature behind the medical profession in the extent of 
its recognitions ? Any man may now, according to law, drive or ride a 
glandered animal through the crowded streets of any town in the three 
kingdoms. He may, without fear of punishment, endanger the lives of the 
unsuspecting wayfarers, whom it is the especial province of the Parlia- 
ment to protect. Why should not the glandered stable be detected, and 
the animals, dangerously diseased, be slaughtered? Why should any 
man be allowed to retain, and openly use as property, that which is per- 
ilous to society; and wherefore should law protect him, when harboring 
pestilence for the sake of profit ? 
That the foregoing observations are correctly based, is proved by the 
pest becoming less common as the public have morally improved—only, 
why leave so immediate an evil to be cured by so slow a process? Years 
