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not ten hands high, with fracture of the thigh, near the hip joint, 
limping in the midst of the glandered horses and mules, of whom 
there were always many with acute mange. He is unable to reach 
the rack, and therefore, gliding from one to another, he lives 
upon what they pull down and leave. During the whole of this 
time he was exposed to contagion of every kind. In his turn 
he was slaughtered ; but there was not a vestige of glanders 
found upon him. 
I state these facts just as they occurred/^ 
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Fisher v. Matthews. 
In The Veterinarian of August last, we gave an account 
of this action for the loss of a horse by means of the careless 
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administration of improper medicine; and when we read the 
evidence of the excoriation and swelling of the mouth and lips— 
the inability to eat—the death occurring so soon after the ad¬ 
ministration of the medicine—the inflammation of the larynx 
and the bronchial tubes, and the admission of the defendant, thrice 
repeated, that he had been drenching a cow from the same bottle 
on the preceding day, and that the croton oil which had been 
left at the bottom of the bottle must have destroyed the horse— 
when we read all this, we regretted, and we expressed that regret, 
that Mr. Matthews could have been deluded to defend an 
action like this.’’ 
Messrs. Stanley and Heane, of Newport, the solicitors of Mr. 
Matthews, have expressed considerable dissatisfaction at the em¬ 
ployment of the term “delude.” They say, and properly, that 
it implies beguilement, imposition. It insinuates that they art¬ 
fully, and for lucre’s sake, led Mr. Matthews to the defence of an 
action in which, according to the evidence produced, he neither 
could or ought to succeed. Our reply is, that w’e had not in our 
minds the slightest reference to these gentlemen, of whom we then 
knew nothing, but of whose high respectability and character we 
have since been informed. It w'as a species of self-delusion that 
we had in our mind’s eye. Some years ago a valuable horse was 
destroyed by the careless administration of a drink by one of our 
own house-pupils. An immediate confession of the truth, which 
might, perhaps, have been concealed, and an offer of reparation. 
