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o’clock till ten. I sat up with him myself till almost three 
o’clock the next morning, and was quite certain then that his 
lungs were diseased. His breathing was not very much dis¬ 
turbed. The horse was very ill; and it was quite plain to 
me that there was also some inflammation of the mucous 
membrane of the bowels. I sat up with him almost all 
night, but he was much worse in the morning. He had his 
medicine repeated, and warm water to drink, which, in my 
judgment, were the most proper remedies. He continued 
to grow worse, and died on the 12th, at about six o’clock in 
the morning. He was not bled again after the night 
of the 8th. I saw that the last bleeding had done him 
no good, and I did not repeat it. He continued to grow 
worse from the time he was first taken ill until he died. I 
saw him repeatedly during the 10th and 11th, at different 
times, from early in the morning till late at night, and medi¬ 
cines were administered in the usual way. I did not hear 
him cough at all.” 
You perceive that though he gave him medicine, he did 
not think he was seriously ill until the 8th ; and from that I 
suppose the servant means to date his illness, beginning at the 
8th and ending at the 12th. This, however, is all Mr. Kent’s 
account of the mode in which the horse was treated, and we 
now come to the evidence of science. And, gentlemen, there 
is no doubt that upon points of science we have men of the 
very highest order coming, upon particular subjects, to diffe¬ 
rent opinions, and yet all professing their opinions to be 
based on actual experiments. There is no doubt that the 
evidence of science is the most dangerous kind of evidence ; 
and, undoubtedly, jurors are very much in the power of men 
of science. I do not know that I can illustrate this much 
better than by supposing that a thousand years ago a trial 
had taken place to ascertain whether the earth revolved 
round the sun, or the sun round the earth. We know very 
well that people would say we have the evidence of our 
senses,—of our eyes, and we see that the sun goes round us. 
They would not, consequently, believe the men of science; 
and yet we know, gentlemen, that they would have argued 
upon sound principles, which, although the people could not 
understand them, yet must be true. This is precisely the 
case with the evidence upon the opening of the body. These 
gentlemen of science sag, we saw a state of things ichich must have 
existed before the 26th of February. 
Gentlemen, you and 1 may not understand them,—we are 
not men of science, and therefore cannot expect to do so. 
What we have to do is to exercise our best judgment upon 
