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in a dirty state covered with straw. It was rather spread. It was 
not in a state of chancre. I will not swear this. I will not swear that 
the sore on the thigh was not a chancre. It was an abscess, but I don’t 
know whether a chancre is. I don’t know what a chancre is. There 
were one or two ulcers round the belly. I did not cough the horse. 
I did not see any matter scraped off the lungs by Sargent. It was dark, 
and I could not see. It was after seven when the horse passed my 
place. We got there in a quarter of an hour. It took twenty minutes 
to skin the horse and take out its lungs. 
By Mr. Slack —Do you mean to swear that it was dark at twenty 
minutes to 8 o’clock on the 13th of May? Did Mr. Broad say that the 
disease existed at the time of purchase, and did you thereupon say “ I 
admit that ?” 
1 did not. I have no recollection of saying so, but I won’t swear that 
I did not. 
Re-examined—There was no reason for my saying so. It was dark. 
I never heard these ulcers called chancres before. 
Mr. Kent —I am a veterinary surgeon residing at Bristol, and have 
been in practice ever since 1813. I have seen farcy many years ago, 
but not lately, in Bristol. I received the head and part of the lungs 
from Mr. Leigh. Simple farcy does not affect the lungs—glanders 
does. Diseased lungs may exist without farcy or glanders. If the 
lungs become diseased it is from glanders. The smell from the running 
at the nose might have arisen from a common cold. I have not heard 
evidence enough to prove farcy. The evidence has not proved that 
the swellings were farcy buds. A change in diet would not produce 
such ulcers as this horse had. The ulcers might have appeared from 
any common cause—as a cold. Bog or blood spavin might be created in 
an hour. I am not satisfied that there was bone spavin. [Mr. Broad 
here put into Mr. Kent’s hands some of the hock-bones of the horse.] 
I admit that this is bone spavin. This disease must have existed for 
the last year or two. 
Cross-examined—I should have been better satisfied if I had seen the 
horse alive. I could not have given a direct opinion if I had seen it 
alive. It was a premature act to kill it. I should have been able to 
form an opinion as to whether it ought to be killed if I had seen it. 
The knots on the skin might have arisen from other causes than farcy. 
I am not acquainted with any books in which the word chancre is used. 
[Mr. Slack here read from White’s treatise on * Veterinary Medicine,' 
which he said was published in 1807, as follows: “If glanderous matter 
or the matter taken from a farcy ulcer be applied to the skin where the 
cuticle has been torn or abraded a chancre or foul ulcer is produced.” 
Mr. Slack also stated that in Percivall’s modern work on ‘Farcy’ the 
word was used.] I have not attended a horse with farcy for a year or 
two. 
Mr. Kent stated that a horse was pronounced to be glandered at the 
Veterinary College two years since, and, subsequently, examined by six 
veterinary surgeons and pronounced to be free from the disease, and 
was at the present time working in London; upon which Mr. Broad 
stood up and stated to the Court that the case to which Mr. Kent re¬ 
ferred occurred only about November last, and it had since been proved 
that the opinion given at the College was a correct one. 
Re-examined—Farcy is not now very prevalent, in consequence of 
improved treatment of horses. 
Mr. Nathaniel Leigh —I ‘am a veterinary surgeon of Bristol. I ex¬ 
amined a portion of the lungs of the horse in question, and found it in 
