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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
Mr. Joseph Boston , V.S. — This horse was sent to him to be 
shod from March to June. There was no lameness during the 
whole of that period — no disease of the feet or of the coronets. 
He observed his hocks. There was not any formation to lame the 
horse, or to have a tendency to do so. He saw him again in 
October. He was sound. The coronets were perfectly sound. 
No ossification of the coronet — no lameness of the hock. 
Cross-examined. — He had nothing to do with the horse, except 
shoeing him. Has seen the horse repeatedly, but never profes- 
sionally examined him. Never put on him broader shoes than 
usual. 
Mr. James Kerr , V. S., examined the horse on the 8th of Au- 
gust ; he was lame from splents : the lameness was then subsiding ; 
it was immediately under the knee, extending from the inner head 
of the large and small metacarpal bones to the knee-joint. His 
attention was particularly directed to the feet. 
There was no disease about the coronets. His feet were very 
good ; is confident the lameness arose from the splent. There was 
an enlargement on the inner and lower part of the hock, but so 
situated as not to interfere with the action of the joint. There was 
no pain evinced on pressure of the splent on the near fore leg, but 
when the knee was flexed there was evident pain. 
[In answer to a question from Lord Abinger, — he could not re- 
commend the horse to him or any person with such a splent.] It 
might have arisen from a blow. 
Cross-examined. — The enlargement on the inside of the hock 
had nothing to do with the cartilage between the cuneiform bones. 
When two or more bones of the hock are united by ossific matter, 
then we have spavin ; but here, in the morbid specimen produced, 
is a deposit on one of the cuneiform bones, which could not possibly 
do harm. He judges of the consequence of a spavin from its situ- 
ation and size. In this case, it did not at all interfere with the 
action of the joint. 
G. Brusath, foreman at Tattersall’s, has been accustomed to 
horses from his childhood. He saw this horse in July, and ob- 
served his action in the trot and the walk. He did not examine 
him as for purchase, but he is firmly of opinion that there was no 
lameness about him. When he afterwards came to Tattersall’s, he 
was lame — he thought. The leg felt hot, and filled. 
W. Banks has been accustomed to horses from his youth. He 
saw this horse twice. He had beautiful action, and was not in the 
slightest degree unsound. This was in June. The first time he was 
accidentally in the yard, and Mr. Sheward told him that he would 
shew him a handsome horse. It was, indeed, a handsome one, 
and apparently as sound as a bell. 
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