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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
lest we outrun the scent. We said on a former occasion — and we 
are ready to repeat it on this — that “ there was nothing more con- 
nected with the wishes and wants, and we feel assured with the 
improvement, of the veterinary pupil” than Mr. Morton’s “Manual 
of Veterinary Pharmacy.” 
VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
Westminster Hall, 10th February, 1848. 
In the Exchequer.— Mayhew v . Spooner. 
Tried before Lord Chief Baron Pollock and a Special Jury ; five 
Special Jurymen only appearing, a Tales was prayed. 
Counsel for the Plaintiff, Mr. Cockburn, Mr. Martin, Mr. Pe- 
tersdorff. — Attornies, Messrs. Mayhew, Son, and Reynolds. 
Counsel for the Defendant, Mr. Serjeant Wilkins, Mr. H. Hill. 
— Attorney, Mr. Wilkinson. 
[From the Short-hand Writer’s Report.] 
Mr. Petersdorf opened the pleadings. 
Mr. Cockburn then stated the case on the part of the plaintiff, 
as follows : — 
May it please your Lordship, Gentlemen of the Jury, — The 
plaintiff, Mr. Mayhew, is a veterinary surgeon, and was for 
some time a demonstrator of anatomy at the Veterinary College. 
The defendant, Mr. Spooner, is the principal professor and teacher 
at that same establishment ; and the action is brought by Mr. May- 
hew to recover compensation for certain slanderous words applied 
to him in the presence of a considerable number of persons by the 
defendant, Mr. Spooner. The history of the transaction, gentle- 
men, and the circumstances which led to this action, are shortly 
these : — 
In the year 1843 Mr. Mayhew became a student at the 
Veterinary College, which, as you know, is situate at Camden 
Town. The Veterinary College, gentlemen, is a species of hos- 
pital for horses, if I may use that expression, where horses suffer- 
ing and labouring under any disease are taken in to be cured, 
and where, as is the case at our own hospitals for the treatment of 
human beings, lectures are held, and demonstrations on anatomy 
