45:2 VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
Dick of Edinburgh, that these excavations, so frequently met 
vvitli in the tarsal, elbow, and other joints, instead of being ab¬ 
normal productions, are placed there as ** oil-wells or cisterns.’’ 
How far they are right, we will not venture to say. Certain it is, 
that these sulci are to be found in almost every hock; but are 
they to be met with as frequently, and to as great an extent, in 
the young animal as in the adult? or even in the horse whose 
work has been moderate, as in the poor brute that has run 
through the different gradations of racer, hunter, tilbury-tit to 
some town swell, butcher’s nag, and costermonger’s pet? No; 
certainly not. We have, in a few instances, met with these ex¬ 
cavations in the hock-joint of the foetus. We will treat the 
matter more fully a little further on. 
H. F. 
[To be continued.] 
Ueterittarp 
THE CARELESS ADMINISTRATION OF IMPROPER 
MEDICINE TO A HORSE. 
FISHER f>. MATTHEWS. 
This was an action brought by the plaintiff, Mr. Robert Fisher, 
junior, of Newport, solicitor, against Mr. Charles Matthews, who 
practises in the same town as a veterinary surgeon, to recover 
the value of a horse belonging to the plaintiff, which, as it was 
alleged, had died in consequence of the defendant having, by 
himself or servant, given improper medicine to the animal, or by 
the negligence and want of skill with which the same was pre¬ 
scribed or administered. 
Thomas Sparks examined .—Is servant to Mr. Robert Fisher, senior: knows 
Mr. Robert Fisher, junior, the plaintiff in this action, who lives with his 
father. Plaintiff had a chestnut horse before April last; the horse had been 
out at grass during the winter,* was brought up from grass in April j wit¬ 
ness had seen him most days,* he appeared in good health; remembered 
Cartwright (defendant’s servant) coming to him on the 16th of April; he 
told witness he wanted him to assist him in giving a drink to Mr. Robert 
Fisher’s horse: went with Cartwright to the stable; Cartwright put the 
twitch on the horse, and witness held it. Witness asked Cartwright why he 
brought a drink instead of a ball; Cartwright said Mr. Matthews sent that 
drink because the horse was a bad one to give a ball to. The drink was in a 
glass bottle; Cartwright gave the horse the drink out of a horn; one or two 
