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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
One had a chronic cataract. It was clouded on the lens. It 
might escape the eye of an inexperienced person. Thrushes 
would cause stumbling. He was not a sound horse. He exa- 
mined his teeth — he was eight or nine years old. He went very 
lame in moving, owing to the contraction of his feet by the 
thrushes. 
Cross-examined. — A cataract is an opacity of the lens. There 
are two kinds of cataracts — they may be small or large. A small 
cataract does not entirely obstruct the rays of light : a large one 
generally does. There are two kinds of thrushes — an unsound 
one, and one that may be consistent with soundness. There is a 
running thrush — that is always an unsound one. Standing in 
moisture would often cause a thrush. The thrushes of this horse 
were unsound. A horse may appear to be perfectly sound, and 
eight days afterwards thrushes may appear. 
Thomas Brown. — Is a veterinary surgeon, and has belonged 
to the Carabineers seven years. It is his duty to inspect the 
horses of the regiment. He inspected a chestnut stallion belong- 
ing to Captain Smyth. The feet were not sound — he had con- 
traction and thrushes. The thrushes were not of recent date. 
He had also cataract. 
Cross-examined. — Cataract is not curable. If it was mecha- 
nically removed, that would do no good, for he must wear spec- 
tacles, in order to have perfect vision, and no one could tell what 
lens would suit him. A simple speck on the eye was readily 
distinguished from cataract. 
John Watts , a veterinary surgeon, residing in Limerick, in- 
spected a stallion at Swinburn’s, at the request of Capt. Smyth. 
There was a cataract on the off eye. Cannot say how long it had 
existed, it might have been formed in a month or six weeks. 
The horse had some sight in the eye. His feet had thrushes. 
These constituted unsoundness. The horse was more than seven 
years old. 
Cross-examined. — He recommended Mr. Smyth to purchase 
the horse. His feet are now perfectly well ; in fact, he is as 
sound as any horse in Limerick, with the exception of the eye. 
James Rourke knew the stallion — remembers his having been 
trained by Mr. Maher. He was three years old when he was 
training in 1834. He got an injury in the eye while he was 
training. 
Mr. Henn addressed the jury for the plaintiff. He lamented 
that the learned counsel for the defendant had been instructed to 
speak harshly of the plaintiff, an example which he did not mean 
to follow. He would content himself with proving, from the 
letters which passed between the parties, that there was no war- 
