VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
239 
PRESENTATION OF A TESTIMONIAL TO 
FINLAY DUN, Esq. 
The students of the Edinburgh Veterinary College met in 
the Lecture Theatre, on Friday evening, March 16th, in order 
to testify their grateful acknowledgments to Finlay Dunn, 
Esq., Lecturer on Materia Medica, by the presentation of an 
elegant Escritoire and fittings. 
The presentation was made, in the name of the students, by 
Mr. Paton. 
The gift was acknowledged by Mr. Dun in an eloquent and 
feeling manner. 
Veterinary Jurisprudence. 
BALFOUR v. WORDSWORTH. 
( Continued from p. 122.) 
ec EVIDENCE FOR DEFENDER. 
“ Professor William Lick , veterinary surgeon, Edinburgh: 
Called on 21st December to examine gelding at defender’s. 
Defender, and pursuer, and some of defender’s men present, 
had been told that horse was returned as unsound. It was 
going a little lame on near fore foot. Witness got shoes 
removed, and found that feet had been very much cut away, 
and second nail on the inside front part of hoof had pressed 
so much on the quick as almost to produce suppuration; and 
other nails all too near the quick. Though nail does not 
touch the quick, its nearness will cause such pressure as to 
lead to inflammation of foot, according to length of time 
there. The shoes also rested too hard on sole — not suffi- 
ciently removed from it. The outside rim of shoe was not 
properly applied to the crust or outside part of the hoof, and 
from this the quick was affected, and there was a degree of 
tenderness on pressure. There had been too much paring of 
the hoof and rasping, so that there was not sufficient crust 
left to support weight, and this led to pressure on sole. Did 
not observe any indications of founder. Had it been foun- 
dered four months before, witness must have been able to 
detect it from his examination of hoof. Nothing but natural 
rings round the hoof. Holds it strange to say that rings are 
unnatural on horse’s foot. External rings may be caused on 
hoof from natural causes, as change from grass to stable 
