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Veterinary Jurisprudence. 
ALLEGED DEATH FROM GLANDERS. 
An inquiry was held on Tuesday, September 6th, at Guy’s 
Hospital by the Southwark and City coroner, Mr. W. J. Payne, 
respecting the death of a man named King, in the employ of the 
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company, stated to 
have died from poison received into his system from a glandered 
horse. 
Abraham Ring, the son of deceased, said his father was taken ill 
a fortnight since, and declared that he had “ farcy,” meaning that 
he was infected with a disease peculiar to horses. Deceased 
said he had been attending to a glandered horse, and supposed he 
must have poisoned himself by scratching his leg, for his right leg 
had sores upon it, and was greatly swollen. 
Mr. Stanley , veterinary surgeon to the London, Brighton, and 
South Coast Railway Company, produced a certificate from his 
locum tenens stating that the horse alluded to was not glandered. 
Samuel Barnes , in the employ of the company in this department, 
stated that there had been no case of glanders among the horses 
of the company. 
The medical man, Mr. Holdham, who attended upon deceased at 
the hospital, stated that the disease which caused the deceased’s 
death had all the appearances of glanders. 
Henry King , a son of deceased, who worked at the same place as 
his father, said that the horse was much swollen in the hind legs, 
and had every appearance of “ farcy.” The jury returned a verdict 
that deceased “ Died of exhaustion consequent upon catching 
glanders from a diseased horse.” — Times. 
