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SALE OF GLANDERED HORSES. 
which has for its object the alleviation of pain, and the sal¬ 
vation of the lives of domesticated animals,) earnestly to 
endeavour to suppress the fraudulent transactions in glandered 
horses, a work which has been so laudably commenced by 
Henry Martin, Esq., one of the magistrates for the county of 
Nottingham. 
Since writing the above, I have been informed that several 
of my best employers are desirous of seeing my opinion in 
print on the sale of glandered horses; such being the case, 
you will oblige me by letting the above communication 
appear in the next number of ‘The Veterinarian . 5 
Samuel Brown. 
Melton Mowbray; 
Aug. 7th, 1852. 
SALE OF GLANDERED HORSES. 
To the Editor of the ‘Leicester Journal’ 
Sir, — Some opinion may be formed of the grievous extent 
to which dealing in glandered horses is carried, from the fact 
that no less than six cases of horses so affected having been 
sold in markets and fairs since I caused James Henson to be 
apprehended, have come to my knowledge. There are gangs 
of low horse-dealers and swindlers in Loughborough and 
Nottingham, worse than those in Smithfield, who are never 
without such diseased animals. I am informed by an eminent 
veterinary surgeon, that there are more glandered horses at 
this moment in the country, than he ever knew in all his ex¬ 
perience ; and that he has had occasion to condemn a great 
many in the farmers 5 stables. 
The unconscious possession of a glandered horse is de¬ 
structive to property and dangerous to human life, and the 
inadvertent application of glandered matter to a wound or 
scratch on the person of a poor unsuspecting labourer, might 
cause a death as horrid as that from hydrophobia. The two 
cases of this at Melton Mowbray are well in the recollection 
of the public. 
A heartless villain, who, for the sake of a few pounds, 
would jeopardise the life and property of another by selling 
him a glandered horse, deserves the gallows. 
There are quite sufficient obstacles in the way of a prosecu¬ 
tion by indictment for this offence, without additional annoy¬ 
ances. I am informed that my case at the late Leicester 
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Assizes was the first on record; and if a prosecutor is to 
