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MR. PEACH'S CASE OF “ HYDATIDS." 
(To be found at p. 80 of this Vol., No. 74.) 
Dear Sir, — I n compliance with your request, I send 
you a few more particulars in reference to the hydatids 
found in the shoulder of the horse belonging to W. Elmhirst, 
Esq., Round Green, near Barnsley. 
I have seen that gentleman, as well as the man who took 
off the skin, and the farmer who drove the horse. When 
the muscles of the shoulder came to me they were in such a 
mutilated state that I did not observe any cyst , having only 
just time to get the package to the railway-station that even- 
ing, fearing decomposition. 
Mr. Skinner said they were in a bag which lay betwixt 
the shoulder and the ribs; that he cut off a portion of the 
bag, and then the productions escaped. 
The man who drove the horse in the farm informed me 
that he worked very well to the last, except when (not having 
free use of the shoulder) stepping over rough ground. 
The accident occurred in the presence of the coachman, 
by rushing against a gate-post, on the 7th of December, 
J841. He was under treatment till April or May, 1842, 
having been repeatedly blistered. The injury was considered 
the only cause of lameness. He was in his 30th year when 
destroyed. 1 have not yet been able to reclaim the bones ; 
but I have no doubt there was considerable disorganisation 
about the shoulder-joint. 
VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
SERIOUS CHARGE OF FRAUD IN A HORSE TRANSACTION. 
William Brown , a horse dealer and trainer, of Carlisle, and 
William Carlisle , a farrier, &c., of Wigton, Cumberland, were 
charged by Mr. Thomas Sibson, of Grinsdale, near Carlisle, 
with fraud in a horse transaction. Mr. Sibson, solicitor, of 
Carlisle, conducted the prosecution, and was assisted by 
Mr. Noble, of this town; Mr. Watson defended the prisoners, 
who were arrested on the previous Friday night, at their 
respective residences, and had been in custody up to the time 
of the hearing of the case. 
Mr. Noble having stated the circumstances of the plaint, 
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