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EXPOSURE OF GLANDERED HORSES. 
previously lost one from glanders. Mr. Line is a consi¬ 
derable farmer, in good circumstances, and resides at 
Stainby in Lincolnshire. On my arrival, a roan filly was 
shown to me first, which, on examination, proved to be a very 
clear and decided case of acute glanders. I at once declined 
treating the case, and told the owner that, in my opinion, his 
safest and best way would be to destroy her at once. He 
was unwilling to act upon that advice, and asked me if 
nothing could be done for her. To which inquiry I replied, 
“If you have a grass field at a distance from home, and where 
there are no horses either of your own or other people’s to 
come in contact with the filly, you may turn her out, and 
give her a feed of barley once a day, until you are fully satis¬ 
fied that she will be of no further use/’ Up to this time the 
other horses were well. About six weeks afterwards, 
however, I was requested to go over to Stainby again; and 
on that occasion the glanders showed itself in a valuable cart- 
mare. It was a slight, but still a decided, case of that disease : 
the horse discharging from one nostril, which was ulcerated. 
Not seeing where the man’s loss would end, I both felt and 
expressed myself sorry for him, and at the same time assured 
him that I knew of no medicine which would really cure the 
disease; therefore, under all consideration of his case, I be¬ 
lieved that it would be the best for him to make up his 
mind to bear with the first loss, and destroy the two mares 
at once. He expressed great unwillingness to do that, 
and at length prevailed upon me to send him some medicine 
for the cart-mare. This was not done on my part with any 
view to arrest the progress of the disease, but merely to 
satisfy Mr. Line’s desire of doing something. And when 
the medicine was sent, I pointed out, in writing, the danger 
to which the man who gave the balls would be exposed. 
With so much precaution from a veterinary surgeon, we 
might reasonably suppose that no man who moves in a 
respectable station, and in good circumstances, would have 
shown such a degree of moral delinquency as to sell glan- 
dered horses for the express purpose of involving other 
persons in a similar or perhaps a more extensive loss than 
his own. Yet such appears to be the case with Mr. Line, 
who either sold to, or employed George Harvey, of Sewstern, 
(an adjoining parish to Stainby), to bring the two glandered 
mares to Melton, three days prior to the 1st of June, in 
order that they might he sold at the fair which was held on 
that day. G. Harvey and J. Henson belong to the low class 
of horse-dealers ; and judging from this transaction, it ap¬ 
pears that they are confederates in glandered-horse specula- 
