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Mr. Nice, the veterinary surgeon, stated, that it was his duty 
to attend and inspect the horse, on the requisition of the officer, 
and he found it to be decidedly affected with the glanders. The 
disease was of long standing, though the ulceration of the nostril 
had perhaps recently appeared. 
Mr. Harry Daws, a veterinary surgeon, who had viewed the 
dead animal, thought the discharge from the nostril arose from in- 
flammation of the lungs. The horse could not relieve his lungs 
by coughing or by the mouth, but the natural discharge was by 
the nostril. The horse did not die of glanders , but of sub-acute 
inflammation of the lungs. 
Mr. Nice admitted that the immediate cause of death was the 
rupture of a bloodvessel from the diseased state of the lungs ; 
but the horse had the glanders as well. 
Mr. MAYOR, another veterinary surgeon, and who differed with 
Mr. Nice, was about to be called, when 
Mr. Alderman Hughes Hughes said, if he went into the me- 
dical evidence, the result would be to raise a doubt, and of that 
the defendant ought to have the benefit. Enough had been said 
already to raise that doubt, and he might as well dismiss the 
charge at once. At the same time he must mention, that by the 
common law it was a serious offence to take an animal labouring 
under an infectious disease into a public market, to the danger of 
the sound cattle, and the defendant would do well to take warning. 
The complaint was discharged. Times. 
Waltham, Leicestershire, 
Oct. 22d, 1845. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Gentlemen, — As a constant reader of your valuable periodical, 
I have, of necessity, been highly gratified by the able reports con- 
tained in its late numbers of the cases occurring in the “ Edin- 
burgh Veterinary College;” and I have been much pleased, and 
certainly not a little surprised, after what had been hinted about 
the “limited and defective” means possessed by the students of 
that institution, to find that the practice is in reality a very exten- 
sive one. 
