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IMMOBILITY IN THK HORSE. 
an animal that has died of disease, or been destroyed by the au¬ 
thorities, may take place under the following conditions:—Other 
veterinary surgeons are named, whose opinion will not prejudice 
the conclusions of those by whom the animal has been con¬ 
demned, except it is manifest, from the lesions found in the course 
of the dissection, that they had mistaken the disease. It is not 
indispensable that this examination should take place during the 
continuance of the warranty; it must be evident from the post¬ 
mortem appearances that the disease was actually existing at the 
time of sale. 
[We make no apology for the introduction of this long extract, 
and which will be continued in a subsequent number. Some 
of the regulations are of a singular character, and not a little 
inconsistent wuth our habits of thinking on this subject; and 
the confinement of unsoundness to particular diseases, instead 
of assuming one grand principle applicable to all cases, is a 
great defect in continental veterinary jurisprudence. But we 
must permit M. Imlin to complete his sketch ere we, or, what 
we should far better like, some of our correspondents, take up 
the subject in good earnest.] 
The cause of veterinary science, as connected with the agricul¬ 
ture of our country, progresses—slowly, indeed, but surely. Some 
who have great weight now, and whose influence by and by will 
be yet more powerful, have honourably declared their approbation 
of the improvement which the Agricultural Society is endeavour¬ 
ing to work out. If there are others who hesitate or oppose — 
a course so inconsistent and so injurious cannot be long, and 
never triumphantly, pursued. Good sense and good feeling will 
interpose; and that wish, so natural and so dear to the human 
heart, to live in the kind remembrance of those with whom we 
have been associated, will ultimately unite us all in the accom¬ 
plishment of the noblest improvement our art has yet received. 
IMMOBILITY IN THE HORSE. 
This disease, which has been so often referred to in the list of 
redhibitory luisoiindjiess, consists of a paralytic or cataleptic af¬ 
fection of the cerebral or spinal nerves, or both. The power of 
voluntary motion, and of sensation too, is, to a certain degree, im¬ 
paired, or altogether suspended. Hurlrel D’Arboval, following 
Chabert, thus describes it: There are two principal pathogno¬ 
monic symptoms, which can scarcely be overlooked, and which 
are always decisive: first, the absolute or nearly absolute im- 
