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risv. Some days after the disease had been seemingly established, 
the animal became intensely lame in the left fore foot. At the 
expiration of three weeks he died of hydrothorax. 
Examination after death presented the usual appearances in 
the chest. 
In the feet the serous synovial membrane of the left foot was 
red and thickened. There were vascular arborizations on the 
perforans tendon. The synovial capsule which facilitates the 
motion of the perforans tendon over the little sessamoid bone 
likewise presented characters of ac^te inflammation. The fascial 
fibres which unite the sessamoid bone to that of the foot ex- 
hibited considerable redness, and numerous minute points. The 
articulation of the second phalange with the third presented 
a curious appearance. The synovial fluid of that articulation was 
abundant, and of a colour deeper than was natural. The serous 
fluid was likewise of a deep red ; its consistence also was 
thicker than was natural. This redness and thickening were 
greatest at the articular margins, and also at the posterior and 
superior portion of the capsule. There were already formed on 
this latter part five or six false membranes, adherent, pedun- 
culated, filiform, and of a yellow-grey colour. 
Rec. de Med. Vet., Jam. 25, 1842. 
VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
Our readers will not object to the introduction of the two following 
trials. The first records a successful attempt at plagiarism, that 
stands alone for its professional ignorance and barefaced impu- 
dence. The second describes a singular fracas between two pro- 
viders of horses, and records a lamentable history of “The Vet.” 
Moor v . Clarke. 
This was an action in which the plaintiff sought to recover 
damages for the alleged piracy of his property in a certain print 
of a celebrated mare, called “ Beeswing,” well known in the 
sporting world. It appeared that the plaintiff, when Beeswing 
was at the zenith of her fame, in 1834, had gone to great expense 
in having her portrait taken and which he had had engraved. The 
mare was represented in the act of racing at full speed, her off 
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