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horse had been over them all before; he did not appear handy; 
by that witness meant that he was an inexperienced horse, not 
up to it; when he first came he was in good condition, and he 
noticed nothing amiss in him. 
Re-examined by Mr. Bubb. —He felt him, and his flesh was 
sound. 
By His Honour. —He was on the last day not up to his work; 
he had some vetches from a farm house and gave them to him, 
and after chewing them he spat them out again, shewing he had 
lost his appetite. 
Henry William Hooper , veterinary surgeon, residing at 
Cheltenham, remembered seeing a horse of Mr. Davis’s on the 
18th of June last year; when he saw him he was suffering from 
inflammation of the lungs, pneumonia; he thought he had a 
chronic disease on him as well; he attended him regularly till 
he died, on the 25th; he examined the horse after he was dead; 
his lungs were extensively diseased, and the chronic disease 
which he before mentioned was very evident; the pleura of the 
lungs and chest adhered together, but it exhibited no inflamma¬ 
tion of that part; he came to the conclusion that the disease 
had existed for some time ; the lungs were inflamed, and they 
shewed disease of long standing, tubercles in all stages of de¬ 
velopment, some going on to suppuration, some in an inflamed 
state, and some about to form ; some had formed abscesses ; it 
would take two or three months to arrive at such a state; he 
had been unsound for at least three or four months previous to 
the purchase, according to his opinion; the bill produced was 
in his hand-writing ; that was his name at the bottom, as having 
received £2.As. for attending the horse ; when he opened the 
horse he found the lungs in different stages of disease; the 
horse died of inflammation of the lungs, and not of the abscesses; 
they were the predisposing cause, and that produced the inflam¬ 
mation ; it was his opinion that, as regarded that case, these 
abscesses had been chronic ; an abscess was a cavity containing 
any abnormal fluid; an abscess would exist in the lungs for 
months. 
Cross-examined by Mr. Newmarch. —Supposing an abscess 
had existed for months, he could detect it by the application of 
the ear to the side of the horse ; if he was told that Professor 
Dick had said that the coat would evidence the disease, he should 
not have much opinion of him; an abscess would sometimes 
cause a coat to look sleeky; the horse died of the inflammation 
on the lungs; he looked very little altered at the time of death, 
for he was so full of flesh ; he breathed very quick indeed; 
there was an alteration in the breathing ; if the horse had been 
