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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
Ayres, the wool brought from Thessalia, and the serious 
accident which happened to a facchini (porter) at Genoa in 
1851, after having carried the skins of horned cattle. This 
case, which is only cited here en passant, has, it is true, 
reference to another affection than that of the Steppes. But 
these instances of contagion by the skins, &c., of animals 
which have died of typhus and other contagious affections, 
do they not show clearly that the skins, even in their dried 
state, conserve the fatal property of propagating the malady 
during a certain time, which time cannot be determined with 
certainty, and which is not lessened by traversing the sea, as 
instanced by the above facts? The commerce of skins and 
other cadaveric products causes great inconvenience to those 
Russian governments in which the typhus never prevails 
except when introduced by contagion, either through the 
medium of the convoys of provisions or of the skins, &c. 
Tanned hides are without danger; but the exportation of 
hides, either raw or dried, with the hairs on, ought to be 
strictly prohibited from all parts where typhus is not indi¬ 
genous. These reflections, which it would be useless to 
carry further, sufficiently show that the progress of agri¬ 
culture, by narrowing the ring in those basins where typhus 
is of spontaneous development, and thereby improving their 
sanitary condition, would be to that country which furnishes 
for cattle only a scanty supply of provender, and which is 
besides of bad quality, a real benefit, and that inoculation is 
of useful application. 
Veterinary Jurisprudence. 
DEVON LAMMAS ASSIZE. 
SHEEP WARRANTY CASE—THE COATHE. 
ROUTLEY V. HOSKINS. 
Council for plaintiff, Mr. Collier, Q.C., and Mr. Buller; attorney, 
Mr. Rowe. Council for defendant, Mr. Karslake,Q.C., and Mr. Kino-don; 
attorney, Mr. King. 
This was a sheep warranty case. 
The witnesses in this case, except the scientific ones, were ordered out 
of court. When this order was issued there was a general uprising of 
the persons in the body of the court, all of whom made towards the door. 
His Lordship , looking at them, said—Are those all witnesses in this 
case ? 
