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running at the nose. I told him I would not have any thing to do 
with her, as I was afraid she had something worse than a cough. 
Shortly afterwards, this mare, and a horse belonging to Mr. 
Porter, livery stable keeper, were reported to the Royal Court as 
being glandered. This last horse was purchased from Mr. Le 
Page. A certificate of its being in perfect health was published 
in The Veterinarian by Mr. Hodges, the veterinary surgeon 
before alluded to (but which Mr. Page denied having given). The- 
mare died of the glanders, and Mr. Porter’s horse was killed ! 
It would take up too much of your valuable time were I to> 
state to yout the opposition which I have laboured under frorm 
many persons, either from their own interested views or through^ 
ignorance ; and had it not been for the condescension and kindness^ 
of Major General Napier, the Lieutenant Governor of this island?, 
whom I may justly call the friend of the oppressed, it might have 
been far worse for me than it has been. When speaking of the 
General, I cannot omit to mention the intimate knowledge pos- 
sessed by him respecting horses when infected by the glanders, 
who pointed out amongst other symptoms the swelling of the under 
eyelid, which generally takes place when the matter has entered 
the frontal sinuses, as a true indication of it; a circumstance not 
known to many veterinarians, and particularly those in Jersey and 
Guernsey. 
I remain, my dear Sir, 
Your very obedient servant, 
W. Mogford. 
N.B. — In addition ter the list of persons who have died in con- 
sequence of infection from glandered horses, I beg to mention a 
man of the name of Williams, the late servant of the Earl 
of Cassilis, when in Jersey. 
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By Mr. W. J. GODWIN, New- street, Birmingham. 
Having noticed in your last number a case of cramp, described 
by M. Conte, I intrude a few observations as to your labouring un- 
der the impression that spontaneous dislocation of the patella (a 
case which I recorded in the third vol. of this publication) was 
the cause of those symptoms, and neither cramp nor palsy. 
The case I at that time alluded to had been attended for several 
days as cramp by a veterinary surgeon, and nothing is more com- 
mon than the owner or groom mistaking it as such. 
I then expressed an opinion that it was of spontaneous origin, 
predisposed by some malformation of the animal, and combined 
