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formed a more satisfactory opinion. After inflammation had gone off, the 
induration would probably remain till further inflammation ensued. You can¬ 
not always tell during life whether a horse has this disease of the lungs. I 
have seen many after death as bad as the one in dispute, yet who have died 
without their lungs having been suspected of being unsound. 
Re-examination. —Horses have died under my care, and I have found 
their lungs diseased when I had not expected to do so. I have seen a great 
many examinations of the horse, and wherever I find induration of the 
lungs I have taken it as an indication of disease of long standing. It is by 
no means an uncommon thing for a horse to have repeated slight inflammation 
of the lungs, producing, at length, induration of them. I cannot tell—there 
is nothing which would clearly indicate—^whether the commencement of this 
disease was a violent inflammation, or whether it was produced by a succes¬ 
sion of slight attacks; in either case it must, in my judgment, have been of 
long standing. Supposing the horse to have exhibited no appearance of dis¬ 
ease on the 26th February, nor from that time until the 4th of April, I should 
still be of opinion that the disease had existed for some time—I should say 
some months, and it might have been many months. 
John Norfolk sworn. —I am a veterinary surgeon, and have been so about 
eighteen years. I have examined the pieces of lung in the bottle produced. 
They are both affected by disease, but the lower piece alone is altered in 
structure. Disease must have been going on in it for two or three months, and 
probably longer. There must have been inflammation to have produced altera¬ 
tion of structure; Active inflammation sometimes terminates in a chronic 
form. In this the air-cells are broken down and lymph deposited, which 
makes the cells impervious to air. I have heard of the treatment which this 
horse received under Mr. Kent. His treatment for the lungs was very cor¬ 
rect, but for the bowels I should have acted differently. In mucous inflam¬ 
mation aloes is improper—it is too drastic. I should give it to purge in a case 
of constipation, but in mucous inflammation I should not give it at all. 
By the Court. —I have heard the account of the treatment, and, judging 
from that, I should not have given the aloes. 
Cross-examined hy Mr. Serjeant Bompas. —The air-cells are not destroyed 
in all cases of violent inflammation. The animal sometimes recovers from 
violent inflammation, and where he dies the air-cells are not destroyed in all 
cases. They are never destroyed if he dies from the quickness and severity 
of the attack. The lungs sometimes present one congeries of blackness even 
in the short space of twenty-four hours. There is no disorganization in that 
case, but the lungs are gorged with blood. It has the appearance of being 
decomposed; that is, from a distance it may appear so, although it is not. In 
consequence of inflammation there is a deposition of lymph in the air-cells, 
but I am not aware that they become broken down. It still remains an air- 
ceU filled with lymph. At the period of acute inflammation it is loaded with 
blood, not with lymph. The lung does not become disorganized in any degree 
from inflammation in two or three days. What the farriers call rottenness of 
the lungs is disorganization. That does not frequently happen in forty- 
eight hours—it takes a longer time. A portion may become rotten in forty- 
eight hours, but it would be a part wliich had been previously diseased. A 
lung would not float under such circumstances ; whenever the air-cells are 
filled with blood, they will sink. In general cases, during a short and violent 
inflanunation, the lung will be so heavy that it will sink. 
Mr. Nathaniel Leiv'h.^ examined, hy Mr. Stone. —I am a veterinary surgeon 
of this city, and I have been in the habit of attending Mr. Fisher’s horses. 1 
was called in on the 12th of April to examine a dead horse in Mr. Kent’s 
possession ; it was a dark chestnut. I opened it and discovered a slight iuHain- 
mation of the bowels, but I considered the cause of death to be inflammation 
