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practised on the part of the vendor at the time of the sale. If 
the jury were satisfied that deceit had been practised in the 
present instance, then the plaintiff was entitled to recover, the 
same in all respects as if this had been a breach of absolute 
warranty. Deceit, if proved, vitiated the bargain. That the 
horse was unsound immediately after it came into the posses- 
sion of the plaintiff, had been proved beyond all doubt on the 
evidence of Mr. Field, and that unsoundness could not have 
been caused by riding the horse up to London. One of the 
jury had certainly formed an erroneous opinion : — roaring was 
an unsoundness in law. The issue was reduced to the ques- 
tion, whether the General knew the horse was a roarer at the 
time it was sold. 
Mr. Skinner would ask his Honour whether he connected 
the last conversation with the first — the conversation of the 13th 
with the conversation of the 23d of May ? 
His Honour replied in the affirmative. The horse was bought 
on the 23d on the faith of the observations previously made by 
the defendant. 
The jury consulted for a short time, and then returned a ver- 
dict for the defendant, adding, — “ We believe that General 
Brooks was not at all aware of the unsoundness, although the 
horse might not at the time have been sound.” 
Mr. Skinner said, the General would feel deeply indebted to 
the jury for the rider they had added to their verdict. 
Windsor and Eton Express , 21s£ December , 1850. 
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INFALLIBILITY OF PHILOSOPHICAL THERAPEUTICS. 
By S. Thomas D’Allex, M.D., &c. 
We must carefully abstain from hypotheses in searching for 
truths of vital influence over the welfare of mankind. For, in 
experimental philosophy, whatever cannot be deduced from 
constant or frequently recurring phenomena is hypothetic, and 
ought to be shunned as a source of danger, likely to mislead 
into the paths of error, whence it is so difficult to withdraw. 
Moreover, since nothing is more simple, more true, and 
consequently more beautiful, than the system which Nature 
