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coiifiaed stable, and more especially during the prevalence 

 of particular winds. The disease is usually ascertained b}^ a 

 Cougb, there being commonly a slight shivering. It always 

 affects the skin more or less, the coat stares, the animal seems 

 unthrifty, and is never in sleek condition. The breathing 

 and pulse are always more or less affected. The Lungs be- 

 come liverlike, and have tubercles and abscesses, which run 

 into one another and are two different stages. A\Tien the 

 Lungs are much diseased or hepatized, there is an interrup- 

 tion of blood and consequent enlargement of the Liver. 

 Hepatization takes place very rapidly in the Lungs, in con- 

 sequence of their extreme vascularity. It seldom happens 

 that both Lungs are equally affected. AVhen inflammation 

 has taken place sufficiently to produce hepatization, there is 

 an invariable tendency to produce tubercles and abscesses. 

 Then the disease commonly runs its coiu-se from ten days to 

 a fortnight, depending in some measure upon the treatment. 

 If he had found the Lungs hepatized Avith tubercles and 

 abscesses, and the Liver double its weight, containing cheesy 

 matter, he should have said it had lasted for a week. He 

 had however met with many cases of tubercles, abscesses, and 

 hepatization, which must have lasted longer. He had 

 known a Liver enlarged twice its natural dimensions in less 

 than a week. This arises from distension with blood. He 

 should expect the Liver to be congested. If it was very 

 pale the complaint must have been chronic. Purging carried 

 to excess increases inflammation of the Lungs. The func- 

 tions of the Liver is to separate the bile from the blood. He 

 should expect to find irritation of the bowels when the Liver 

 is enlarged. The Liver in this case weighed 32 lbs. instead 

 of 15 lbs. The disease is like a galloping consumption in a 

 human being. 



In answer to a question put by the learned Judge the 

 witness said, — "I consider the disease in the Lungs began 

 within a fortnight of his d-eath, but that there had been a 

 Catarrh from the time the man led him home." 



Mr. Justice Colekidge told the Jury that the question 

 they had to consider was, had the Horse the seeds of the dis- 

 ease on the 23rd of August? The plaintiff' must make out 

 this proposition. The defendant maintained that the Horse 

 was sound at the time of delivery. The Horse had been sold 

 a short time before his death, and both the plaintiff and the 

 buyer had been taken in. 



The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages 62/. 



