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GLANDERS. 
AN ACCOUNT OF THE BREAKING OUT OF THE GLANDERS IN THE 
TROOP AND TRANSPORT SHIPS IN THE EXPEDITION TO EGYPT, 
IN 1800. 
By Mr. W. Mogford, V.S., Guernsey. 
I SEND you this narrative in consequence of an article which 
appeared in your number for the last month, page 458, by that 
experienced writer on horseflesh, “ Nimrod.” I think it a duty I 
owe to the memory of the late Mr. Coleman to state, what I had 
promised many years ago to send to him, but which promise I am 
sorry to say I neglected; viz. an account of the breaking out of 
the glanders among the horses with the expedition to Egypt in 
1800. 
In consequence of gales of wind the hatchways were battened 
down; after this the glanders broke out among the horses in the 
troop ship and in the transport, a collier from Shields, in which no 
horse had ever before been embarked. I was on board of her; and 
after the inspection of a veterinary surgeon (who I believe was 
a Russian), six horses were killed and thrown overboard at one 
time. 
My knowledge of that destructive disease was at that time very 
limited, and I doubted whether these animals were glandered; but 
from later experience, and a recollection of the symptoms Avhich 
I can remember, of which farcy was one, 1 have now no doubt 
about it. 
For the last fourteen years I have been employed by the States 
of this Island to inspect all horses before they are landed, as some 
unprincipled dealers were in the habit of bringing here glandered 
horses, by which a great many of those in the island became in- . 
fected. One carter lost fourteen horses, another nine, and many 
others a serious number; but by destroying all these, and keeping 
a friendly look-out after our neighbours, we now seldom meet with 
a glandered horse. 
Six years ago I resigned the office of inspector. About that 
time a Mr. Isemonger, who keeps carts, imported one. The said 
horse infected about a dozen others, including those in his own 
stables ; the others belonged to some of his neighbours. A short 
time after another man of the name of Allaire imported five more ; 
but these not having been permitted to live so long, did not do so 
much mischief as the other single horse of Mr. Isemonger. The 
dreadful effects of that one case are still extant in the island. 
As to the infectious character of glanders, from the experience 
