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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
Witness .—It is absolutely necessary that the inflammation should have 
ceased before the induration had commenced. Of course, I never saw the 
inside of a horse until after death, but I can tell by the common course of 
disease. I have seen horses with the same disease before. They must be ill 
before induration w'ould take place, but not very ill. It follows the termina¬ 
tion of slight disease. Of the horses which I have examined, some have died, 
and others have been killed from various causes. When I examine a living 
horse, I do not ride him once in ten times. I see him trotted in a man’s hand. 
I do not have them trotted hard, but very gently. I do not have them stop¬ 
ped short. I usually cough them. By coughing them is meant, pinching the 
horse’s throat. The object is to ascertain w'hether he has a cough, or is 
broken-winded; in fact, whether he has any disease of the lungs. If persons 
try horses to ascertain their soundness, they are trotted gently to see whether 
they are lame or not. It has not been my habit to ride or drive fast. I never 
saw this horse go fast, but should think he could do so. I could have had 
65 guineas for him whilst I had him, but I was never bid 80 guineas for 
him. The gentleman who offered me 65 guineas had seen the horse pre¬ 
viously to my purchasing him. When I went to the Hotwells, I went up the 
new road to go to Clifton Dowm. That is not a steep hill. It is a trotting 
road. I looked over this horse before I bought him, in the way I do any 
other, to ascertain whether he was sound or not. I told Mr. Fisher, on the 9th 
of April, that the horse was ill. I w’as at his place to look at another horse, 
and I told him so personally. The courses of disease are different in different 
horses. Chronic and acute diseases take different courses with respect to 
time. There may be chronic disease existing previously; or, in other words, 
a part affected by chronic disease may be attacked by acute inflammation, 
the same as a part not diseased; and, in fact, it would be more liable to be so 
attacked. Tubercles in the lungs are sometimes longer in forming in one 
animal than in another. They do not form immediately on acute disease 
taking place. A horse may have diseased lungs and tubercles, and appear to 
be in perfect health. I have known many instances of it. He certainly could 
not gallop, hunt, or run a race; but he could do carriage work. 
Cross-examination continued .—A horse with tubercles may trot in a carriage 
without their existence being manifest even to a veterinary surgeon. When a 
disease has once become chronic, it may remain dormant till something arises 
to excite inflammation. Tubercles may exist a length of time without injury 
to the horse, unless he did something violent. I had no suspicion that the 
snorting cough had any connexion with diseased lungs. It might happen to 
any horse, but its existence does not shew that the horse has or has not dis¬ 
ease of the lungs. This horse never coughed until the very close of his ill¬ 
ness. I am not aware that the previous coughing had any thing to do with 
the lungs. 
The tw’o Messrs. Leigh came to my stable on the 12th. I do not know at 
wLat time the uncle came, but it was not until the horse had been opened, 
and the lungs cut to pieces. They were in a state in which he could perfectly 
ascertain what was the matter. When I bought the horse he appeared to be 
in perfect health, and w'as very fat. In my judgment, the inflammation of the 
bowels first arose on Monday, the 8th of April. I gave him his first medicine 
before that. I had previously given him a dose on the 4th, 5th, and 6th. 
Re-examined hy Mr. Crowder .—The animal became violently ill on the 
8th, and I spoke to Mr. Fisher about it on the morning of the 9th. He did 
not come to see him. I told him that I thought he would die. I believe 
Mr. Nathaniel Leigh attends Mr. Fisher’s horses. I knew that he was in 
constant communication with Mr. Fisher. I should think the violent cough¬ 
ing on the 6th had something to do with the lungs. It was such a cough as 
I should expect to find in an animal whose lungs were in that state. A part 
