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sequently does not readily take on the suppurative process, I 
came to the conclusion that the animal had at least the existence 
of chronic disease three months prior to his death. I now bring 
this to a conclusion by putting the following queries to yourself 
and numerous correspondents. In what time, at the earliest 
(without any specific cause such as inoculation from glanders) 
does it require for abscesses to form in the lungs, and for organ¬ 
ized adhesion of the pleurae to take place, leaving no appearance 
of inflammation or hydrothorax I And, 
I remain, Mr. Editor, 
Your’s faithfully, 
Henry William Hooper, M.R.C.V.S. 
To Wm. Percivall, Esq. 
Veterinary Infirmary, Cheltenham, 
May 1, 1852. 
P.S.—In the course of a few days I will forward you a copy 
of the Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard, in which paper the 
late trial is reported. 
[The trial will be found under “ Veterinary Jurisprudence.”] 
*** We are of opinion that the horse died of “ acute pneu¬ 
monia,” the disease Mr. Hooper found him to be “ labouring 
under;” and that the “abscesses” discovered after death were the 
results of inflammation in the lungs contracted after the horse 
had been sent to Mr. Davis. The “ adhesions,” we are of opinion, 
from the description Mr. Hooper gives of them, might, and pro¬ 
bably did, pre-exist; but, whether they did or did not, they 
were evidently not the cause of the horse’s death.—E d. Vet. 
VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
CIRENCESTER COUNTY COURT. 
Death from Pulmonary Disease Twenty Days after Purchase. 
Thursday , April‘22.—Before J. Francillon, Esq . 
Richard Bee, of Dowdeswell, v. William Hayward, of 
Kemble, “ for that a certain horse was not sound, as promised 
by the defendant at the time of sale by the defendant to 
the plaintiff, by which the plaintiff has sustained damage to 
the extent of £24..45.” Mr. Bubb, instructed by Mr. G. 
T. Bubb, of Cheltenham, conducted the plaintiffs case, and Mr. 
G. F. Newmarch, of Cirencester, attended on behalf, of the 
defendant. Mr. Bubb shortly opened the case, and then called 
Thomas Wheeler, the elder, farmer, of Winstone, who said, 
