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without Mr. Dixon’s knowledge, and my object was only to 
serve my late employer, whom I had served so many years. Mr. 
Sympson said he would not be satisfied with any thing but the 
return of all the money; his partner, Mr. A’Beckett, told him he 
had a clear case, and that he would not only have all the money 
back, but compel the defendant to pay the legal expenses that had 
been incurred. 
Re-examined. —Mr. Dixon had received a writ, which was the 
reason I called on the plaintiff to endeavour to get the matter 
settled. 
James Chappel deposed that the mare was worked several times 
just before she was sold, and that she never shewed any signs of 
illness. 
Charles Spooner .—I am professor of anatomy in the Veterinary 
College, London; I have heard the evidence in this case, and I be¬ 
lieve all the symptoms referrible to acute inflammation. A disease 
may be acute in one hour, and in consequence of a change in the 
function of the vessels may assume a chronic form. An adhesion of 
the pleura does not necessarily shew a disease to have been of 
forty days’ standing; I have known many cases of adhesion shew 
themselves within a few days. I have known an animal in perfect 
health in one day attacked with acute inflammation of the lungs, 
and die in less than a week, exhibiting symptoms similar to those 
described by Mr. Barrow; this refers to the lumps. If there had 
been an adhesion of the pleura, the animal could not have worked 
as described by the last witnesses; long-standing adhesions in the 
pleura are rarely met with; the animal could not exist under such 
a disease, because his respiration and circulation of the blood would 
speedily render it acute, and death ensues in consequence. I never 
saw a case of chronic disease except in a horse that did little or no 
work, and I have opened some thousands. I don’t think this mare 
could have worked as described if she had an adhesion to the 
lungs—it is impossible; my opinion is that the disease in the liver 
w r as also referrible to acute inflammation. I have frequently known 
the liver reduced to a pulpy state in the course of a week, and 
generally speaking, when the liver is in that state, it is in con¬ 
nexion with acute inflammation of the lungs. There is a disease 
which frequently affects the liver of horses where the liver un¬ 
dergoes a somewhat similar change, only the liver becomes much 
larger in pulps, and it is unassociated with lung disease, and rarely 
exists except in old subjects. In some instances horses shew disease 
after travelling; it arises from nervous excitement, or from varia¬ 
tions of temperature. I have known many come out of a railway 
box covered with perspiration, caused by nervous excitement; I 
have known horses that would not eat for days afterwards. 
