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will be told too much, and thus each will become “his own 
horse-doctor,” may perhaps be quelled by observing that the 
professional man in his writings must of necessity denounce 
as quackery all modes of treatment that are not founded upon 
right principles; consequently, in the end, the man of educa¬ 
tion will be alone sought for, and the value of Veterinary 
Science become duly appreciated. 
Veterinary Jurisprudence. 
THE LATE HORSE CASE. 
The case Ward v. Curtis, reported in the Veterinarian of last month, 
taken from the Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard, having excited 
an unusual amount of interest, on account of the wide difference 
of opinion exhibited by the veterinary surgeons who were called 
as witnesses, a disinterested and experienced veterinary surgeon, 
Mr. Thomas D. Broad, of Bath, was requested to examine the horse in 
question, that gentleman being in the habit, it is said, of examining 
a great many horses as to soundness, in the course of the year. Mr. 
Broad says he cannot conceive how Messrs. Kent and Leigh could make 
such statements in reference to the horse’s fore-feet, as there is not the 
slightest appearance of ossified cartilages, or disease of the pastern 
bones, or of the navicular joint. They are not good strong feet, and 
they are rather flat (not convex, as stated by some of the witnesses,) and 
thin-crusted, requiring more care in the shoeing than feet of stronger 
growth, but they cannot fairly be termed unsound. Such feet never 
require any cutting. The shoeing-smith’s knife is a very frequent cause 
of lameness. The following certificate gives the result of Mr. Broad’s 
examination :— 
Veterinary Establishment, 
Broad street, Bath ; Nov. 17, 1859. 
This is to certify, that I have this day examined at Mr. Neale’s of 
Thingley, near Corsham, a 5-year-oid off brown cob gelding, with a 
white near hind heel, height nearly 15 hands, a slight blemish on the 
off knee, and an irregularity of one of the incisor teeth in the upper 
jaw. The fore feet are rather flat, but not in any respects diseased, or 
such as might be termed unsound. The hocks are enlarged, especially 
the off, and are what are termed diseased or spavined hocks, and con¬ 
stituting unsoundness, although there is not any lameness, or any 
apparent interference with the action of the hocks. This certificate 
refers to the horse respecting which there has been two County Court 
trials, at Malmesbury. 
THOS. D. BROAD. 
THE LAW OF AUCTION. 
The case of “ Cleobury v. Tattersall,” tried at the last Hertford 
Assizes, and fully reported in the Times’ columns of July 23d last, and 
in which a verdict was found for the plaintiff, who acted as his own 
attorney, has just been concluded, defendants having paid the damages 
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