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changed : for it will no longer allow any man to direct his attacks 
on its members (especially one who cannot correctly be called one 
of the profession) without taking up the pen in their behalf; 
nor will it permit yourself to ride rough-shod over that profession, 
at the expense of individual members of the same, even allow¬ 
ing that your shoes have the advantage of being put on without 
nails. 
Finally, we will not debate with you the terms upon which 
you accept our challenge, as you term it; but we at once declare 
to you that, if you undertake the proof of the assertion as made 
in 1838, “ in a concise straightforward manner f —if you wish to 
act in perfect truth and justice,—you must prove it from facts of 
the same date as the assertion just mentioned, and not from 
books, pamphlets, and letters, some twenty or thirty years old. 
August 11th, 1838. 
THE VETERINARIAN, SEPTEMBER 1, 1838. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
THE LAWS RELATING TO WARRANTY IN THE 
GERMANIC STATES. 
% M. J. I MLiN, of Strasbourg, 
Austria. 
If an animal becomes ill or dies within twenty-four hours after 
its delivery to the purchaser, it is presumed that the disease 
existed at the time of sale. 
The same thing is presumed when, within eight days after the 
sale, MANGE appears in the hog, and foot-rot or scab in the 
sheep, or, in the last animal, the rot occurs within the space of 
two months: also if consumption occurs within thirty days after 
the sale in cattle, or, in horses, and especially of much value, 
STRANGLES, or GLANDERS, or BROKEN-WIND should appear 
within fifteen days, or farcy, or restiveness, or amaurosis, 
or SPECIFIC OPiiTH ALMi A within thirty days. 
The laws impose on the purchaser the obligation of giving 
notice to the seller, or, in his absence, to the legal authority of 
the place, of the existence of the unsoundness the moment he 
discovers it, and always in sufficient time for the tribunal to 
proceed to the examination of the living or dead animal, througli 
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