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ALARMING MORTALITY FROM GLANDERS. 
[From the Armagh (Ulster) Gazette.] 
It is our painful duty to record several deaths from glanders in 
human subjects, which took place in the neighbourhood of this 
city (Armagh), and in parts of adjoining counties, within the last 
few weeks. 
Case 1. 
The first victim in our obituary was a respectable farmer, named 
Wallace, residing near Killieagh, in this county, who, having pur- 
chased a glandered horse in the late fair of that village at a low 
figure, fell a martyr to his temerity. The animal had been previ- 
ously condemned for glanders by Mr. Small, veterinary surgeon of 
this city; but poor Wallace, who was in constant attendance on 
the horse, under the impression that he only laboured under a cold, 
caught the infection, and died in dreadful agony after fourteen 
days’ illness, leaving a wife and six children to deplore his prema- 
ture demise. 
Case 2. 
Another respectable farmer, named Reid, residing in the town- 
land of Letmacolum, near this city (Armagh), had a horse in his 
possession affected with farcy and glanders, from which, in his con- 
stant attendance on the animal, he caught the dreadful malady; and, 
despite the most able medical treatment this city could afford, he 
fell a victim to the fatal disease on Tuesday last, leaving an aged 
mother, of whom he was the only support, to mourn his loss. 
Case 3. 
Another farmer, also, of the name of M'Cardle, residing near 
Castleblayney, died of this horrible disease (acute glanders) a few 
days ago, caught from a horse he had purchased in the fair of Bal- 
libay the month previous. The awful agony this poor man under- 
went, before death put an end to his sufferings, was such as to 
cause his wife and family, with the exception of his eldest son, to 
flee from him, being in a complete state of the worst climax of de- 
lirium ; when persons under its influence execrate and detest the 
presence of those who, in their sane moments, they loved best on 
earth. 
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