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transverse ligaments are first affected, and tlien the capsular. There are 
joints which have capsular ligaments alone. 
Re-examhied. —Before bone is formed it may be removed by blistering, 
which would not leave a mark, but firing would: it depends on the neatness 
of the operator. 
Mr. John Norfolk. —I am a veterinary surgeon residing at Bath. I 
examined this mare on Saturday last, at Messrs. Lorymer’s stables. I ex¬ 
amined her hocks very particularly; there are no bone-spavins, not in either 
hock. She is not lame, but perfectly sound in my opinion*. I coughed 
her. 
By the Court. —Bone-spavin is a deposit of bone : there is no stiffness or 
enlargement of her joints. 
BIr. R. Rawlings. — I am a veterinary surgeon living in Bristol; T have 
examined this mare: the first time I examined her was on the 30th of last 
May: her hocks are perfectly sound. I saw her also last Saturday; I coughed 
her: there is no enlargement of the hocks; I am quite positive there is no dis¬ 
ease about her. I lived formerly at Wells. Hocks may be large or small, 
and well formed if either. 
Mr. N. P. Leigh., sworn.—I am a veterinary surgeon of Bristol: I have 
been so more than thirty years. 1 examined the mare on Tuesday last; I 
did it carefully. There is no enlargement of the hocks ; they are perfectly 
free from disease; there is no stiffness. I coughed her, and she is perfectly 
sound. 
This was the Defendant’s case. 
Verdict for the Plaintiff, the full amount claimed. 
[This was a very proper verdict. The mare was unsound at the time of pur¬ 
chase. The professional witnesses for the defendant speak principally to 
the state of the mare at or a little before the trial. This is the true and 
the satisfactory explanation of the discrepancy of evidence. Mr. Kent 
may rest perfectly satisfied with having beaten, and fairly beaten too, the 
four veterinary surgeons that were brought in array against him, while 
there is no impeachment of character and ought to be no breach of friend¬ 
ship on either side. 
At the time when, we trust, that better days are preparing to dawn on our 
profession, let us not wilfully and inexcusably prolong our degradation 
by any petty quarrels with each other. 
As to the sound” and “ unsound” cough of the learned Sergeant, it is 
too outre to deserve any laboured refutation.—Y.] 
* Mr. Norfolk’s definition of bone-spavin is concise: certainly ‘H)one-spa- 
vin is a deposit of bone;” but if Mr. Norfolk means by that, that every dis¬ 
eased enlargement of the hock, which is commonly designated bone-spavin, 
is a deposition of bone, he must excuse me for not being of his opinion.— 
J. Kent. 
