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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
sound horse; there was no disease in the plaintiff’s stables then; 
the chestnut horse had a sore throat, but of a more aggravated 
description than this horse; there was a slight irritation in the 
upper part of the throat, a common result after travelling; he was 
in good condition, and looking well; Clarke did not mention his 
coughing on the road to Liverpool; he said it had a bad cough. 
Ellis saw the horse the day after; the causes of disease of the 
lungs are exposure to heat and cold ; the more frequent cause is a 
change from a cool to a hot stable; horses generally cough from 
travelling; acute inflammation of the lungs is easily observed ; the 
coat is very staring; chronic and acute inflammation are alike in 
this respect; inflammation affects the coat or skin immediately; 
the duration of the disease is always long before tubercles of the 
size found in this horse could be formed; the duration of the dis¬ 
ease is always long in the slow, chronic form; in acute inflamma¬ 
tion of the lungs has seen death ensue in forty-eight hours; they 
are then broken up; an inexperienced person would imagine that 
the disease had continued for a length of time ; such an appearance 
would prove a long-standing disease ; in acute inflammation of 
the lungs there would not be a cough; in chronic inflammation, 
invariably. 
Re-examined by Mr. Sergeant Wilkins.—The appearance of 
the lungs would account for the cough; the disease is analogous 
to consumption in the human subject; the disease alternates very 
much ; on some days the horse assumes a very lively air, and his 
coat is fine, and on other days the horse is very much depressed; 
in acute inflammation the lungs are always broken up ; the lower 
portion of the lung was very much covered with tubercles. The 
disease must have existed from two to three months; it is scarcely 
possible that tubercles so large could be formed in so short a 
time. 
John Ellis deposed.—Is a veterinary surgeon, in practice at 
Liverpool. In the beginning of September last was in Hyde’s 
stables; his attention was directed to the bay gelding in question; 
he appeared to have a cold; his attention was not directed to the 
lungs; ordered medicine and a mash diet; thought there was an 
irritation at the top of the throat; disease in the lungs and liver 
sometimes remains in a passive state; has heard the description the 
last witness gave of the lungs; it would produce a cough in the 
chronic form; there would be foetor from the breath; gentle exer¬ 
cise would not prevent the horse from maintaining his condition, 
in spite of disease of the lungs. Procter shewed him a portion of 
the lung; it had the appearance of liver, and in a portion of it 
were abscesses containing cheesy matter. The disease must have 
been seated for months. The horse was kept by the plaintiff in a 
