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EDITORIAL. 
EDITORIAL. 
GLANDERS AND FARCY. 
Amongst the maladies to which the equine species is liable, there is 
none which is more frightful and dangerous than farcy and glanders. 
Its incurability, its contagiousness, and its unavoidable fatal termination 
have made it the subject of interest for all pathologists, and the means 
of its prevention the object of studies for the sanitarian; and both have 
obtained from the different governments of Europe laws which deal 
thoroughly, not only with the treatment of animals thus affected, but 
also with penalties to be inflicted on owners of farcinous and glandered 
horses, who, through a pretended ignorance or erroneous pecuniary in¬ 
terests, have tried to elude the strict sense of these laws. These generally 
require from the owners the declaration to an appointed authority, 
the isolation and quarantine of animals so affected, their destruction, 
and, as Reynal says, the defense, under the most severe punishments, of 
exposing for sale, to sale, or use for any kind of work, and specially to 
expose on public roads glandered and farcinous horses, even those sus¬ 
pected of being affected with these diseases. In this number of the 
Review we give the full report of a case prosecuted by the American 
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in which a certain 
Edward Garson was arrested and tried for exposing a glandered horse 
in a public market, with the conviction and sentence to six months in 
the penitentiary—a punishment which the man well deserved. 
While we give, with pleasure, our hearty compliments to the worthy 
President of the Society, Mr. H. Bergh, we cannot fail to fully acknow¬ 
ledge that the said Edward Garson is suffering a sentence which many 
others in the City of New York, and probably in other cities of the 
Union, deserve also. Have we any law which regulates the treatment 
and disposal of such animals ? We would almost unhesitatingly say no, 
for what are the laws mentioned in the report of the trial, as enacted by 
the Board of Health of New York City, but almost dead letter? 
Some time ago the said Board of Health requested an investigation 
to be made of the prevalence of glanders in that metropolis. The result 
showed that more glandered or farcinous horses could be found in New 
York City almost than in any other city in the world. The alarm was 
given. An order was passed by the Board, with directions that every 
veterinary practitioner should be requested to report to the Health 
