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and insensible. She was drawn on a gate, and placed in the 
yard, where I saw her two days afterwards. It seemed to me 
to be a decided case of rabies, and she was destroyed. The 
appearances after death were precisely the same as in the pre- 
ceding case, with the exception of the oesophagus being inflamed 
and the membrane of the frontal sinuses in a state of putre- 
faction. 
A great number of cows, sheep, and dogs, died rabid in this 
neighbourhood in April last. 
SCOTCH VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE.— 
GLANDERS. 
Communicated by Mr. Tait. 
Banff, 17th May, 1836. 
Unto the Honourable the Sheriff of Banffshire. 
The Petition of Archibald Young, Solicitor in 
Banff, Procurator Fiscal of Court for the Public 
Interest, 
Humbly sheweth — That your petitioner has just now received 
information, by a writing herewith produced, subscribed by one 
Huitor, of the county, and by sixteen respectable farmers and 
tenants in the parish of Marnoch, and adjoining parts of the 
parish of Rothiemay, stating, that for months past they have 
considered their horses in considerable danger from two horses 
affected and labouring under that dreadful, most infectious, and 
fatal disease, called glanders, now in the possession of George 
Harper, tenant in Brae of Cudmellie, in the said parish of Mar- 
noch and county of Banff ; and the petitioner has also been 
informed, that several other horses, belonging to and in the pos- 
session of the said George Harper, have recently died of that 
disease. That the petitioner feels it his duty to state these cir- 
cumstances to your lordship, and to pray. 
That it may please your lordship to appoint this petition to be 
served on the said George Harper on a short induciee, and with 
or without answers, to appoint a Veterinary Surgeon, of know- 
ledge and experience, to repair to the residence of the said George 
Harper aforesaid, and to inspect the said horses ; and if such 
Veterinary Surgeon is satisfied that the said horses, or any horse 
or horses in the said George Harper’s possession, or on his pre- 
mises, are labouring under the said disease called glanders, that 
he shall forthwith kill, or cause to be killed, the said horses in 
his sight, and to be buried so as to prevent the spread of infec- 
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