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A SUPPOSED REMEDY FOR GLANDERS. 
By Mr. Henry Rowcroft, 4, Robert-street, Commercial-road. 
I am advised to lay before your special notice my having suc- 
ceeded in a case of confirmed glanders ; and I enclose you a copy 
of a testimonial or certificate given me on the day of my de- 
parture from St. Vincent, by Dr. Kennedy, nephew of Dr. Alex. 
Stewart, M.D., and Garrison Surgeon to the Forces in Ireland, 
These medical gentlemen resided together, and were my neigh- 
bours, in the year 1837, professionally and otherwise visiting myself 
and family, and became, consequently, acquainted with my having 
two glandered horses in my stables, and, perhaps, not a little in- 
terested, from its proximity to their own. The horse caught the 
disease from the mare described in the certificate, and, from its 
very low condition, and the cost, and expense of care, physic, and 
feeding in the West Indies, I was induced to have him shot; 
also from the farcy having broke out all over the horse, and 
that I might be enabled to pay more care and attention to the 
mare, supposed to be, from its symmetry, action, speed, and 
courage, the breed of the Arabian, introduced into Virginia, U. S. 
America. Accident favoured me, almost immediately after the 
death of the horse, with a remedy, which, applied and used lo- 
cally and internally, effected a perfect cure of the disease, aided 
by other local and internal medicines. 
The grey mare was originally purchased by a gentleman of 
property, Adam Skelly, out of a cargo, with a discharge from both 
nostrils ; and afterwards by a groom, Frank Punnett, a supposed 
horse-doctor of great repute, who bled it from the jowl to the 
shoulder point ; in fact, operated every way, to a great degree un- 
successfully. A Mr. Taylor, carpenter and cabinet-maker, then 
became owner, who, keeping the mare about one year, induced me 
(supposed to be better acquainted than any person there, and 
generally with most diseases of the horse — the eye, the foot, &c.) 
to exchange a Canadian pony, more useful to him, having a cart. 
So the mare was about two years glandered, and was when I 
purchased her a light grey, inclining to mouse colour, subse- 
quently, on cure, becoming a beautiful dark iron grey. On cough- 
ing, lumps of congealed humour, and apparently tubercles, came 
from her lungs, very offensive, and the mucus generally which 
passed through the nostrils was often accompanied by small 
pieces of decayed bone, something in shape of a piece of quill, 
cut angular-wise from a goose quill, not dressed or pen made. 
A piece or two, one day, fell on my good lady’s muslin gown 
when standing by, persuading me to give up all hope, and let the 
