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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
found the horse suffering from inflammation of the bowels, which it 
was stated to him had been of about twelve hours’ standing; he 
had also understood that the horse had had some medicine given to 
him by a blacksmith at Philips Norton, on its road from Radstock. 
The animal was rolling about in the stable, apparently in great 
pain ; and Mr. Broad, in order to give it more attention, had it 
taken to his own stables, where in about six or seven hours it ap¬ 
peared to have recovered. The next day he saw it again, and the 
pain seemed altogether to have ceased ; but on the Wednesday, 
when he came to examine it, he found that it had inflammation in 
all its feet. Upon discovering this, Mr. Broad bled the animal, 
gave it more medicine, and attended it daily up to Saturday, when 
it appeared to be getting better. Its feet had got nice and cool, it 
could move about the stable, and seemed so well, that on Saturday 
Mr. Broad thought the animal had quite recovered. On Sunday 
morning, however, upon opening the stable door, he was struck by 
symptoms which he had not observed before. The horse was grunt¬ 
ing—its pulse was up to 20 or 30 beyond its natural height—and, 
upon putting his ear to its sides, Mr. Broad found that the animal 
had chronic disease of the lungs, and dropsy to a great extent in 
the chest. He could detect that the left lung was not perfectly 
sound, and the right one appeared to be half gone. Upon dis¬ 
covering this, Mr. Broad immediately told the owner that there 
could be no doubt that the horse was unsound, and that it would 
die; and as there would, very probably, be a dispute about it, he 
had better send for another veterinary surgeon to see it. Mr. Vin¬ 
cent, of Devizes, was accordingly sent for, but by the time he 
arrived the horse was dead. Both gentlemen then made a post¬ 
mortem examination of the animal, and they found half of the right 
lung hepatized, or become solid and incapable of respiration, shew¬ 
ing that there had been long-continued disease going on; the 
membranes, also, they found had become hardened, likewise shew¬ 
ing a long continuance of disease—he (Mr. Broad) should say for 
twelve months; the left lung also shewed patches of hardening; 
and why he knew that the disease had been of long standing was, 
because the membranes had become hard and tough, not shewing 
recent formation; in fact, it was a process which would not take 
place suddenly. The liver, likewise, presented the appearance of 
similar disease; whilst the quantity of water that had accumulated 
in the chest was, Mr. Broad said, he should think seven or eight 
gallons. Mr. Broad, therefore, gave it as his decided opinion that 
the animal could not have been sound on the 2d of July. 
In reply to a question by Mr. Thos. Lavington, of Poulshot, one 
of the Jury, Mr. Broad said he had no doubt that the horse had 
had water in the chest for a considerable time, and had worked 
