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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
Case III. 
This animal was brother to that in Case 2, and nearly four 
months old. 
Symptoms. 
1st day . — Loss of appetite — uneasiness and sickness : immedi- 
ately after swallowing liquids, vomiting took place, and continued 
until death on the 3d day. A peculiar barking was observed at 
intervals, and which lasted throughout. No cough or sneezing at 
all. On the 4th day the dog died, and on the morrow, October 11, 
the appearances after death were : — sublingual glands inflamed — 
the cellular tissue situated between the posterior maxillary bones 
congested — buccal membrane discoloured — rima glottidis slightly 
injected — the fauces very much inflamed — stomach quite empty — 
the cuticular and villous coats highly inflamed, the latter drawn 
into folds — the small intestines inflamed and thickened, and con- 
tained mucus — the rectum distended with a coffee-coloured fluid : 
the lining membrane had many pustular eruptions on it, which is 
most remarkable. The whole gut was intensely inflamed; the 
investing membrane of kidneys inflamed, as well as the cortical 
part of those glands. 
VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
Court of Common Pleas , Dec. 16. 
Nisi Prius Sittings at Guildhall, before the Lord Chief 
Justice and a Special Jury. 
Smart v. Alison, 
Mr. Cockburn, with whom was Mr. James , appeared for the 
plaintiff, and Mr. Knowles for the defendant. 
This was an action to recover damages for the breach of a war- 
ranty given by the servant of the defendant to the plaintiff, on 
purchasing from him a black gelding at Howden Fair, on the 2d of 
September, 1846. The evidence adduced in the case was of great 
length, and occupied the time of the Court during part of yester- 
day’s and the whole of this day’s sittings. 
