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JURISPRUDENCE. 
Counsel lor the prisoner moved for a new trial, on the Judge’s 
minutes, on the ground that the conviction was against the weight of 
evidence. 
(Motion denied.—Exception.) 
Mr. Herring It is now my duty to move for sentence upon the 
prisonei, and I desire to say that in view ol the frequency of this occur¬ 
rence in this city, from the fact that recently a citizen died of this dis¬ 
ease, communicated from a glandered horse, and that it is notorious 
that paities are speculating in this city all the time, more or less, in 
horses of this character, I sincerely trust that this system of fining, pur¬ 
sued by police magistrates shall not be adopted by your Honor, but 
that there shall be set the seal of condemnation upon offences of this 
kind, so certain and positive, that parties who seek to infract the law 
shall know that their punishment shall be imprisonment, and not a mere 
pecumaiy punishment. It is time that the rights of the community 
should be secured by the operation of this law, which, if carried out, 
will speedily break up this nefarious business. 
I he Court: Did I understand you to say, Mr. Herring, that this 
was a contagious disease that passed from horse to man ? 
Mr. Herring : Yes, yorv Honor, and I will read you a number of 
cases in point. 
A man, age twenty-three, was admitted into St. Thomas’s Hospi- 
tal. He complained of much pain in the head and became delirious, to 
mitigate which leeches were applied to the forehead; he then spoke’of 
wandering and acute pains everywhere, indicating some rheumatic affec¬ 
tion. A tumor appeared upon the band, and another on the foot, seem¬ 
ingly of a gangrenous nature ; the pain in the head would again return, 
attended by delirium,„so that he was compelled to be strapped on his 
bed, and all while his flesh was wasting and his strength diminishing. 
On questioning the poor fellow, it was ascertained that he had a glan¬ 
dered horse under his care a month before, and that the discharge from 
the nose had come upon his hands. The case was now sufficiently 
plain , but the patient was too far gone to admit of the slightest hope. 
Previous to his death he said, “ I am dying, I shall die soon, but I shall 
die happy. I know now I am glandered—I shall die as my horses do— 
I shall die happy.” 
A case is mentioned in the Lancet , of 1834, of a Mr. Norbrook, 
who punctured a blister on his knee with a lance with which he had 
previously been bleeding a horse; some of the blood remained on the 
blade, from this he was inoculated, and died a horrid death. 
