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lion of the lungs than from almost all the other diseases put 
together. He had long known the defendant, who had been 
regularly educated as a veterinary surgeon, and was a member 
of the College. Witness considered him an intelligent man, and 
skilful in his profession. 
Mr. Campbell addressed the jury for the defendant, and said 
that the evidence of Mr. Coleman had put the plaintiff out of 
court. He contended that there had been no want of skill or 
attention on the part of the defendant, who, he said, would be 
ruined in his profession had the plaintiff been able to establish 
the case against him. 
Lord Tenterden , in summing up the evidence, said, he thought 
that the death could hardly be attributed to the bleeding. The 
Jury would, however, consider whether there had been any want of 
care or skill in the defendant's mode of treatment of the animal, and 
particularly in ordering the stables to be kept closed and no air 
admitted. If they thought there had been such want of care or 
skill, they would find for the plaintiff; if not, for the defendant. 
The Jury, after retiring for a short time, found for the de¬ 
fendant. 
We congratulate Mr. Rogers on the result of this trial; he 
would have been unjust to himself as well as his professional 
brethren, had he compromised such an affair. He bleeds a mare 
because he thought that “ it was advisable to bleed horses in the 
spring and fall, ,> to obviate, probably, that subacute febrile action 
which is frequently observed during the moulting season. We 
acknowledge that we are not accustomed to do so, for we find 
that a little physic, or alterative medicine, with a few r mashes, 
will much more readily remove the languor which occasionally 
hangs about the animal; and, where we can, we do as Mr. Cole¬ 
man very judiciously recommends, “ let well alone.” 
A few hours, however, after the bleeding, the mare was dull, 
and refused her food and heaved at the flanks, and, as the plain¬ 
tiff affirmed, inflammation of the lungs came on, and she died : 
and then some groom or farrier (it could not have been one of a 
higher grade—Mr. Jumpson, in the report we have given, does 
not say so) persuades the owner that the bleeding was the cause 
of the inflammation—that the fire was kindled by taking away 
