COMMERELL V . STEVENS. 
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some form present themselves as ready means by which the 
object may be gained. Hardly any serious objection can be 
urged against their employment under any circumstance, if 
we except the few instances mentioned of active inflam¬ 
mation or the formation of an abscess; in either of which 
cases, refrigerants are obviously contra-indicated. 
[To be continued .) 
COMMERELL v. STEVENS. 
Note from Mr. W. Mavor, M.R.C.V.S., 77, Park Street, 
Grosvenor Square. 
Gentlemen, —In your issue of the Veterinarian for the 
month of April I perceive that you have transcribed from a 
newspaper the report of a trial, headed “ Commerell v. Stevens .” 
In that report the following remarks occur, which it is 
necessary for my purpose that I should extract: “ However, 
the horse was subsequently sent to Mr. Mavor, the veterinary 
surgeon, who used all his skill to cure him, but nothing 
could be done with the eye, as something had broken the 
outer coating of the ball of it, causing a quantity of the 
humour to escape. Mr. Mavor told Mrs . Commerell that the 
sight was irretrievably gone , w r hen the horse was sent back to 
Tattersall’s, and sold for forty guineas.” . . “The 
horse was sold after it left Tattersall’s for forty-seven guineas, 
was resold at the same price, and, eventually, Mr. Baker, a 
veterinary surgeon, of Clapham Common, sold him to a Mr. 
Edgar for <£ 100 , the horse’s sight being then perfect” 
The report contains an erroneous statement of a fact, 
for it is therein asserted, on the part of the defence , that the 
sight of the injured eye was restored . 
Now, in justice to myself, I cannot permit that your 
readers should be led by such a statement to entertain a 
belief that my representation in a matter, not of opinion, but of 
fact , was so egregiously absurd. 
The horse was sent to me immediately after the occurrence 
of the accident; on the 23d of July, and remained in my 
charge during the subsequent six weeks. At the expiration 
of this time the eyeball had receded within the orbit, leaving 
no hope whatever of a restoration of vision. 
In confirmation of the correctness of this I have received 
the subjoined note from the gentleman who purchased the 
