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bo that appearances of both acute and chronic disease exist at the 
same time. Such cases, in my opinion, constitute unsoundness, 
on the score of the existing chronic disease, and render the 
animal, though dead, returnable. ,, 
“ There are veterinarians who object to the chronic disease 
being the cause of the fresh attack, though they admit that one 
adds to the intensity of the other. But, for my own part, I be¬ 
lieve (and I shall find many veterinary and medical men of my 
opinion) that most recent diseases of the pleura and lungs, arising 
in an organ already altered in structure, are almost always the 
offspring of that alteration of structure : that is to say, one would 
never have taken place but for the existence of the other; and 
consequently one is the principal if not the immediate cause of 
the other.” 
u A considerable difficulty however arises when the chronic 
disease is seated in one part, and the fresh attack takes place in 
another; at the same time, where one (though its origin cannot 
be ascribed to the other) has in all probability been, by sympathy, 
greatly aggravated by it, and in consequence of such aggrava¬ 
tion has proved fatal. I, myself, have been in the habit of making 
such subjects returnable: although, perhaps, it is a far better 
practice (where any thing of the kind is suspected) to prevail upon 
the parties to share the loss, and to have this agreed to in writ¬ 
ing before th q post-mortem examination is set about.’ 7 
Such are the views and opinions of two experienced and 
clever French veterinarians (M. Huzard and his father) on the 
subjects of “ soundness” and “ veterinary jurisprudence,” which 
have, in the course of the past winter, occupied more general at¬ 
tention among ourselves than, perhaps, at any antecedent period. 
We have chosen to give these accounts at considerable length, 
because the importance of the subject, and our dearth of informa¬ 
tion on it, both seemed to demand this of us : we trust they will, 
to say the least of them, furnish materiel for further reflection ; 
and we shall feel at all times rejoiced to aid in diffusing any fresh 
light that may be elicited therefrom. 
Vttetimvu <2Mrituarp. 
The mourned, the loved, the lost—too many ! yet, how few !— byrox. 
George Pearson, M.D. F.R.S. 
We have often accused ourselves of unpardonable negligence 
for not including in our obituary this name “ venerabile et clarunu” 
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