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VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
veterinary surgeon, bought a horse with a cough, and knowing 
him to have a cough, and in these two or three days*pneumonia 
appeared, could he return him? He apprehended not. 
The time of adjournment having arrived, the faither consider¬ 
ation of the subject was postponed. 
THURSDAY, NOV. 19th. 
Mr. James Turner in the Chair. 
Mr. Langioorthi/ repeated the question which he put at the 
close of the last debate. 
Mr. J. Turner replied, that the power of returning the horse 
would depend much on the timely notice given by the purchaser 
to the vender, of the existence of the disease. He recollected a 
case in which, although the horse was manifestly unsound, it 
could not be returned, because notice had not been givemto the 
vender on the immediate discovery of the unsoundness. 
Mr. W. Per civ all added, that it was not only unfair that the 
vender should sutler in consequence of a disease which he was 
not permitted to endeavour to remove, but the cough was one 
disease, and pneumonia a different one ; and a horse could not be 
returned unsound for a disease which did not exist at the time of 
purchase. 
Mr. J. Turner .—It would likewise depend on the attention 
which had been paid to the horse by the purchaser, and whether, 
knowing him to have a cough, he had exacted from him undue 
labour.° It often happened that the seller acknowledged that the 
animal had a slight cough, but he said (( It is a matter of no con¬ 
sequence: the horse will be quite right in a few days. If un¬ 
der these circumstances pueumonia supervened, the loss would 
be the vender’s. 
Mr. Percivall .—It must if the seller gave the buyer a gua¬ 
rantee against all the consequences of cough, but not otherwise. 
Mr. Field .—If the buyer were ignorant of the defect, he w ould 
have a fur claim on the seller; or if he were previously ignorant 
of the diseases of horses and their consequences, and, although he 
noticed the cough, yet, not being aware of its importance, bought 
the horse on the recommendation of the dealer, he might have 
some claim; but if the horse w r as examined by a veterinary sui- 
geon, and the cough was pointed out, he took the responsibility 
on himself. 
Mr. Percivall could scarcely coincide with this. If we wnre to 
take into consideration the possible ignorance of the purchaser, 
we should not know where to stop; and, although pneumonia 
may be one of the sequelae ot catanh, if wc w'Cic to take all the 
