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mare alone. I may take the liberty to say, that Dr. Stewart was 
equally well acquainted with the diseased mare, and my having 
effected a cure. It was forbid to enter the garrison, under pe- 
nalty of being shot ; also from being attached to any place in 
the public street, when dismounted. These necessary threats 
only tended to double my care and researches; and I do main- 
tain that an effectual remedy is now known to me : ready to 
operate when any favourable opportunity and patronage offers, 
either through the nobility, sportsmen, or large proprietors of 
horses ; or through any professional gentleman who will favour 
me with his influence and introduction, on perfection of a cure. 
P.S. — All parties can easily be referred to, and persons are in 
London from St. Vincent, knowing the mare as glandered, and 
cured by me. 
CERTIFICATE. 
I hereby certify, that Henry Rowcroft was my neighbour in St. Vin- 
cent, and had in his possession a grey mare which by the public was con- 
demned for glanders ; and Mr. Rowcroft effected a cure of the above disease 
by means of certain local applications aided by internal medicine, with 
which I am acquainted. 
(Signed) W. S. Kennedy, Surgeon. 
Saint Vincent, 
28th May, 1843. A true Copy, Henry Rowcroft. 
[My reply to this letter received from Mr. Rowcroft was, that 
formerly I could have supplied the writer with plenty of cases 
of glanders ; but that, nowadays, such cases were compara- 
tively rare. Conceiving, however, that his object was pub- 
licity, I would obtain the admission of his letter, certificate, & c. 
into The Veterinarian. — W. P.J 
ON THE RECENT EPIDEMIC AMONG HORSES. 
By Mr. Thos. Mather, F.*$., Edinburgh. 
In and around the vicinity of Edinburgh, the influenza or epi- 
demic or epizootic disease has continued, for many months past, 
to prevail among horses with unabated fury, and with more or 
less fatality, assuming different diagnostic symptoms, according 
to the localities in which these animals were situated. At the 
present moment the cases appear to be more numerous, but of a 
milder character than at the beginning of this year and the con- 
clusion of the last. 
