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new Patients : and, in case of the illness of either of the other Pro- 
fessors, will occupy his chair, and lecture for him as long as may 
be necessary. 
Stalls are, without delay, to be erected for the reception of the bo- 
vine patients, and folds for the sheep, and sties for the pigs. From 
the commencement of the session in November next, the new era 
is to take its date. 
In our next number we shall, doubtless, have more to say. In 
the mean time, we heartily congratulate every well-wisher to our 
profession on the prospect wdiich is opening before us. 
Y. 
VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
The Right of the Owner to recover Damages for a Blemish 
occurring in blistering a Horse. 
In our notice to Correspondents in The Veterinarian of 
last month, we stated that we had “seen an account of a strange 
trial ; and, in our opinion, unjust verdict, respecting an accidental 
blemish in the blistering of a horse.” We now extract from The 
Liverpool Standard, the substance of the trial. We know nothing 
of the parties, but we think such a case deserves to be exposed. 
Hopkinson, v. Thomas. 
The plaintiff was a coachman, and the defendant a veterinary 
surgeon, both residing in Liverpool. 
Mr. Thos. Lawrence, coach and omnibus proprietor, residing at Albany Villa, 
near Aigburth, deposed to knowing the plaintiff, and that in the autumn of 
1837, he swapped a horse of his, worth <£50, with a gentleman, receiving 
another horse and £25. He valued the horse he received at £30. He was 
then in poor condition. He afterwards sold this horse to Mr. Hopkinson for 
£25, as a favour, being what it ha‘d cost him. In the month of October, be- 
fore the accident, he should say that the horse was worth £50, and was at 
the present time worth it but for the blemish. He recommended Mr. Hop- 
kinson to turn him out to grass, and first send him to Mr. Thomas to be 
blistered, and he was accordingly sent from his place to Mr. Thomas, by Mr. 
Hopkinson’s orders, on the 7th of October. He saw the horse three days 
after at Thomas’s with a blemish on his knee, and the leg was very much 
swollen. A light discoloured bloody froth was working out of the blemish 
from a kind of scratch. He saw Mr. Thomas, and asked him how he came to 
let the horse blemish himself in that way. Mr. Thomas said he did not think 
it would be much, and they walked together into the forge, where the horse 
was tied to the rack. He (witness) told Mr. Thomas that he would find the 
blemish was one for life. He (Thomas) then said, it was the fault of 
