20G HYPERTROPHY WITH DILATATION OF THE HEART. 
he will tell you, truly, that he knows by his experience that these 
defects are of no consequence, and therefore he does not consider 
that he should be doing his duty to the seller if he pronounced 
that animal unsound. 
It is a well known axiom among veterinary and sporting men, 
that you may have a horse unsound — I speak professionally — that 
neither is depreciated in value nor incapable of performing the 
duties required from him, and therefore, legally speaking, he is 
not returnable. Every man of any experience knows this : he 
knows that there are plenty of horses warranted sound which are 
not so, yet are not legally unsound or returnable. To return any 
animal to the seller, it is not only requisite that the purchaser 
should shew that the animal was unsound, but he must prove a 
breach of the warranty, and that the unsoundness interferes with 
the duties of the animal. 
I hold it to be my duty, and it will be yours, to point out every 
defect to the purchaser existing in the animal brought for exami- 
nation, and equally our duty to point out those that neither 
depreciate his value nor render him returnable. There are, how- 
ever, so many points connected with this part of the subject, that 
I must reserve the consideration of them for a future paper. 
CASE OF HYPERTROPHY WITH DILATATION OF 
THE HEART,* ACCOMPANIED BY DISEASE OF 
THE LIVER, AND DROPSY. 
By A. Henderson, Junior, M.R.C.V.S. 
To the Editors of“ The Veterinarian.” 
Gentlemen, — B eing called in to attend a case that appears 
to me one of rare occurrence, I take the liberty of forwarding you 
the particulars of it, thinking you might deem them worthy of 
insertion in your Journal for the coming month. 
On Saturday morning, February 7th, I was requested to look 
at a chestnut gelding, which I was given to understand had been 
ill for some time. His abdomen and sheath were (Edematous — 
extremities and mouth very cold — membranes perlectly pallid, and 
no pulse perceptible at the jaw. While, however, endeavouring 
to discover some pulse, my surprise was excited by the peculiar 
and violent regurgitation in both jugular veins, which were dis- 
tended to an enormous size. This at once led me to suppose that 
the heart was not performing its functions in a normal manner, 
