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be mistaken after death ; that symptom he had not heard given in 
evidence, and it could not have existed without being noticed by 
every one present at an examination of the body after death. 
Bleeding might have saved the horse’s life ; but castor-oil and 
molasses he considered bad treatment to administer. Purgatives 
were poison to horses with inflammation of the lungs. He did not 
believe it possible that a horse labouring under inflammation of 
the lungs could survive the operation of purgative medicine. He 
had been twenty years in practice as a veterinary surgeon, and 
never knew a horse purged, while labouring under inflammation 
of the lungs, that did not die. He had known many cured by 
judicious treatment; but he did not think the horse in question had 
been treated fairly — he was quite certain he had not. It is pos- 
sible that a horse may give a cough, and be perfectly sound. 
He usually makes horses to cough by pressing their windpipes 
before passing them ; and, if he could not succeed in making 
them cough , he would not pass them sound . A horse might be 
full or swollen in the channel of the jaw naturally, and that, too, 
without having enlarged glands or disease of any kind. It was 
easy for common observers to be mistaken in these cases ; but he 
would not certainly pass a horse as sound that had enlarged glands 
and a cough under any circumstances. 
After a lengthy examination of the plaintiff’s servant touching 
the treatment which the horse received from the time he left the 
fair till he took ill and died, his Worship awarded the plaintiff a 
decree for the price of the horse and costs. 
An appeal, however, has been lodged ; and the case, which has 
excited some interest in this locality, will come on for hearing at 
our ensuing assizes, which occurs on the 22d instant. 
Ulster Gazette. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNCIL OF THE ROYAL 
COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
Sitting of June 30, 1847. 
Present — the President, the Secretary, Messrs. A. Cherry, 
Peach, V.P., Ernes, Goodwin, Cherry, sen., Constant, 
V.P., Godwin (Birmingham). 
The Minutes being read and confirmed, 
The Secretary read letters from Messrs. Watts and Mills, re- 
turning thanks for the honour done them in being elected Vice- 
Presidents ; Messrs. Peach and Constant had also done the same, 
and both these gentlemen attended ex officio this meeting. 
