GLANDERS, 981 
case, the animal ought to be condemned; in the second, it is open to 
more than suspicion. 
No animal should be permitted to slowly perish of glanders. The 
disease, as it proceeds, affects the fauces, pharynx, and larynx; all 
become ulcerated. Not a particle of food can be swallowed; not a 
drop of saliva can be deglutated; not a breath of air can be inspired, 
without the severest torture being experienced. As the disease pro- 
ceeds, the obstruction offered to the breathing grows more and more 
painful. Farcy breaks forth, and, as a consequence, superficial dropsy is 
added to the other torments. The edges of the nostrils enlarge; the 
membrane lining the cavities bags out, while the fauces and larynx con- 
tract: the discharge becomes more copious and the breathing is impeded. 
Thus the difficulty of respiration is increased, just as the condition of the 
lungs renders the necessity of pure air the more imperative. Ultimately, 
however, laborious breathing induces congestion of the brain, and the 
wretched sufferer falls insensible—it is hoped—to die of actual suf- 
focation. 
Such is a brief description of glanders, to cure which every now and 
then pretenders arise. No medicine, however, can restore the parts 
which disease has disorganized. There is no cure for glanders, which is 
essentially an ulcerative disorder. Every horse being thus contaminated 
should be at once destroyed: it is now lawful to do this when animals 
are taken in Smithfield market; but what is just in one place is surely 
not unjust in another. Moral rectitude resides on no particular spot. 
The blackguards who deal in contagion, driven from the public market, 
now reap a rich harvest by private sales. A chronically-glandered horse 
is an actual property to these rogues. It is sold. No sooner is the 
money paid and the vendor out of the way, than an accomplice appears 
and points out the nature of the bargain. The unfortunate purchaser 
seeks advice, and finds his worst fears confirmed. The accomplice offers 
to buy the horse at a knacker’s price. It is obtained; and again it is 
advertised as ‘a favorite horse, the property of a gentleman deceased.” 
Any person ought by law to be empowered to give any man, driving 
or riding a glandered horse, into custody. There should be appointed 
certain qualified practitioners who should have authority to enter any 
stable at any time. Those abominations, where numbers of glandered 
horses are now stived together, whence they only are taken out to draw 
public vehicles by night, would then soon cease to exist. Were glan- 
dered horses by law condemned, men, from mercenary motives, would 
goon cease buying cheap life for the purpose of working disease to utter 
exhaustion. Such proprietors, were glanders declared just cause for 
slaughtering any horse wherever found, would soon discover their cheap 
