HORSE CAUSE IN LOWER CANADA. 38 7 
tions qui sont dans les intestins et dans les poumons ,’ and said 
to give the same signs as la pousse, another disease of horses, 
which consists ‘ dans un battement et alteration du flanc , qui 
vient d'un oppression qui empeche le cheval de respirer it is 
required of the expert that he state if the horse in question did 
exhibit to him, at the time when the same was examined by the 
said expert, any of the afore-mentioned signs of the first-men- 
tioned disease called courbature, and which ; and in case the 
said expert should report in the negative, he is required to state 
if, notwithstanding the absence of such signs, he still is of 
opinion that the said horse was affected with the disease called 
courbature, of which last-mentioned disease the said expert is 
required to give his definition and understanding, with the diag- 
nostics of the malady and the grounds and authorities in support 
of his opinion. 
“ 2d. In the French translation of an English work on the 
Veterinary Art, by Mr. Delabere Blaine, entitled ‘Funda- 
mental Notions on the Veterinary Art/ vol. iii, page 200, 205, 
the abovementioned disease, ‘ pousse, 5 which is there stated 
to resemble the asthma in the human species, is given as a 
subdivision of a disease denominated ‘ thick wind it is re- 
quired that the supplementary report should state if there be 
any and what analogy between the disease called ‘ courbature ’ 
and that treated of in Mr. Blaine’s work under the denomina- 
tion of ‘ thick wind.’ 
“3d. It is required of the expert that he do report if the 
malady with which he found the said horse affected was or 
was not a primary affection of the joints and other parts of the 
legs, not having its cause or seat in the stomach, intestines, 
lungs, and other parts of the system. Or if the said affection 
of the joints and other parts of the legs was not a secondary or 
sympathetic affection, the principal and original seat of the 
disease being in the stomach, intestines, lungs, or other and 
which parts of the system ; and in the last hypothesis, the said 
expert is required to state on what signs, marks, and symptoms 
he grounds the opinion that the primary affection is one of the 
stomach, intestines, or lungs, and how far it corresponds with 
the definition given by the French law writers and veterinary 
surgeons of the abovementioned disease called ‘ courbature .’ 
“ 4th. The tenor of the report before the Court leading to 
the belief that, in the opinion of the expert, the affection is one 
of the legs and purely local, and the terms ‘ exostosis,’ * splint,’ 
‘spavin,’ and ‘ suros,’ together with the expert’s description of 
the symptoms, signs, and marks of the disease apparently 
pointing to this conclusion ; the expert is required to state in 
