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horse might not turn out to be worth £5, and that £70 was a 
great deal of money to give for the horse. There was no attempt 
to disguise the unsound ness. The horse was bought, like a piece 
of calico, with all faults. 
Mr. Thessiger submitted that on this evidence the plaintiff 
must be nonsuited. 
Lord Denman said that the plaintiff’s witness had certainly 
proved the defendant’s case, and a nonsuit was accordingly 
entered. 
dFoxtiqn Drpartmrnt. 
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Rupture of the Floating Portion of the Colon 
in a Horse. 
By Messrs. Dupuy and Prince. 
A little baggage horse, ten years old, had colicky pains 
during twenty-four hours, and then died. The following 
were the abdominal lesions which appeared a few hours after 
death. The thorax and ail its contents were free from disease. 
The intestinal canal was moderately distended with flatus. A 
small portion of air, and three or four pounds of liquid ali- 
mentary matter, were found in the peritoneal sac. The floating 
portion of the colon, about six inches anterior to the pubis, 
presented an oval rupture, six inches in its greatest diameter, 
rhe rent in the mucous coat was not quite so extensive as that 
in the two other tunics of the intestine. Through this rupture 
the fecal matter had found its way into the peritoneum. At its 
base, the intestine was dilated by an oval pellet, six inches long 
and four wide, formed by the remains of the fibrous portion of 
the dry food of the animal, apparently of recent existence, and 
covered by a thin coat of mucus. Its presence seemed to have 
produced very little irritation or inflammation in the intestine. 
Nothing else that was unusual appeared, except the accumula- 
tion of a considerable quantity of alimentary matter in the 
caecum, similar to that ordinarily found in the stomach, but 
harder. It was divided into masses of nearly an equal size, and 
as large as two fists. The mucous membrane of the caecum had 
not undergone any alteration. 
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