VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
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While, however, I reprobate bleeding, I ought to acknowledge 
that, when I have made deep superficial punctures along the 
course of the spine, and, after permitting the blood to flow a little 
while, have plunged the hot iron into them, and especially 
when, in a similar way, I have destroyed the red and black spots 
which appear in various parts, I have certainly saved many pa¬ 
tients. Internally I administer acetate of ammonia, in doses 
proportioned to the age and strength of the patient. Emollient and 
acidulated injections are continued, and especially if diarrhoea 
comes on, and stimulating frictions are applied to all the limbs. 
Stimulating; drinks, such as wine and theriaca, tincture of asa- 
foetida, purgatives, &c., have never been useful; and purgatives, 
although administered at a period of the disease which seemed 
to require them, many proprietors have abandoned them altoge¬ 
ther, and have succeeded in a fair proportion of cases by adopt¬ 
ing my mode of treatment, and which, in truth, promises to 
enable the agriculturist to escape, to a very great extent, from 
the ravages of this pest. 
Rec. de Med. Vet., Mars 1834. 
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TAUNTON ASSIZES. 
Nisi Prius Court (before Mr. Baron Williams). 
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Palmer v. Greville. 
This was an action to recover the sum of £18, the value of 
a mare sold by the plaintiff to the defendant. The defence was, 
the mare had a defect in her eyes, and therefore was not sound. 
For the plaintiff a number of witnesses, and among them a ve¬ 
terinary surgeon, were called, who swore that the mare's ejes were 
very good when sold, and were so at the present moment. The 
mare was brought to the door of the court, and examined by 
the plaintiff's witnesses, and also by two veterinary surgeons, 
in behalf of the defendant. 
The first witness for the defendant (who is a surgeon) stated, 
that he tried the mare before the defendant had bought her, and 
that both her eyes were then bad. One of the veterinary 
surgeons stated, that she had a speck on the lens of the off eye, 
but the near eye was very good. The other surgeon said that 
there was a speck on the near eye, but that the off eye was 
perfectly sound. . 
