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in all probability, been diseased for a twelvemonth, certainly-for 
months; has known instances of horses working a long time in 
such a state; the hardening of the lungs is the cause of thick wind; 
the appearances he saw in the lungs of the bay horse could not 
have been the result of acute inflammation. 
Cross-examined by Mr. Martin.—The horse died of slight in¬ 
flammation of the lungs and the mucous membrane of the bowels ; 
if he had no tubercles in the lungs he would not have died; (ad¬ 
dressing Mr. Martin) “I deny the authority of the book in your 
hand;” (“The Horse,” published by the Useful Knowledge Society, 
and written by Mr. Youatt); “it w r as written by a man who made 
books to get his bread;” considered no writer on veterinary surgery 
an authority; does not look to books as authorities; what he speaks 
of are tubercles, vomicse, and induration—not inflammation; Pro¬ 
fessor Dick is an authority ; attributes the death in part to the 
liver; the coat in such a case might be as sleek as in other horses; 
the inflamed bowels called the lungs into action, and that killed 
him; inflammation causes the coat to stare; when it ceases, the coat 
will be sleek again; a horse may have diseased lungs, and not 
cough; a horse with lungs so far diseased would cough; as soon as 
inflammation begins the horse will cough; does not think the 
evidence of Mr. Procter or Mr. Ellis of much authority; “ neither 
Mr. Procter or you (addressing Mr. Martin) know what you are 
talking about; you got Procter and Ellis to talk of inflammation, 
which had nothing to do with it;” in his judgment their evidence 
is unworthy of attention ; “ they mistook you;” they mistook the 
case ; Procter only saw a part of the lung, and he confounded 
hepatisation and vomicae with inflammation. 
Re-examined by Mr. Sergeant Wilkins.—There are writers on 
veterinary surgery whose opinion he respects; thinks J. W. 
Mavhew’s opinion entitled to respect, and Professor Spooner a 
capable man; forms his opinion from his own personal experience, 
not from books: Youatt spent his life in the closet, and saw no 
horse; has attended to horses for thirty-six years; when the lungs 
were in the state described, the liver, from its great weight and 
size, would press against the lungs, stop his breath, and cause 
death; has known horses die suddenly from inflammation of the 
lungs, when in exercise: lungs were in the same state as these, 
only not so bad: a horse may die of diseased lungs, and at the 
same time be very fat and in good condition. 
Mr. Martin, on the part of the defendant, then very ably ad¬ 
dressed the jury, informing them that he should be enabled to call 
before them witnesses who would give the horse’s history from 
the time he was purchased a yearling until he was sold to the 
