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serve to exemplify the nature of those acts of the seller, which 
would fall under this head. i I remember/ says Gibbs, C. J., ‘the 
case of the sale of a house in South Audley Square, where the 
seller, being conscious of a defect in the main wall, plastered 
it up, and papered it over; and it was held that, as the vender 
had expressly concealed it, the purchaser might recover.’ To ex¬ 
tend this principle to our subject-matter:—it is conceived if the 
vender were to deceive the purchaser, either as to colour, which 
may be easily done by chemical means, or as to age, by (to use 
a west-country phrase) bishopping the animal, he would be liable 
for the deceit, although no verbal representations had been made.” 
We with pleasure direct the attention of our readers to the 
announcement of the “Second Annual Dinner of Veterinary 
Practitioners” on Thursday the 22d inst. Such meetings are 
calculated to make those who are engaged in the same science 
better known to each other, and to encourage a professional and 
honourable and friendly feeling through the whole body of vete¬ 
rinarians.—We trust that we shall see a numerous attendance. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid lurpe, quid utile, quid non.— IIor. 
A Treatise on the Care , Treatment , and Training of the English 
Race Horse , in a Series of Rough Notes . By R. Darvill. 
[Concluded from p. 111.] 
Chap. VII.—ON PHYSIC. 
Mr. Dar vill's observations on physic, or rather on physick¬ 
ing, go to inform us that race-horses not only require stronger 
doses of medicine than other descriptions of horses, but require 
purging oftener 9 and on occasions on which a mere medical 
attendant would not think oj exhibiting medicine at all. Their 
habits of life seem to render this necessary ; but it appears to be 
peremptorily called for whenever a horse in training, from ac¬ 
cident, or any other cause, is compelled to “ lie by,” and par¬ 
ticularly with craving horses, in order to counteract their “ getting 
lusty,” and so becoming unfit “ to come to the post on the day 
appointed.” 
During the autumn, the period when “ the racing season con¬ 
cludes,” it is that the general physicking of racers takes place. 
Then the old horses that have been running, are physicked for being 
“ light and stale,” and the young ones for being “ young, fresh, 
and lusty:” they are all physicked again when the time arrives 
