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OBITUARY. 
disease he had spoken of might have come on in as many weeks as 
months the plaintiff had had the mare. In cases of peritonitis as much 
matter as had been found in this instance would sometimes accumulate 
in a few days. 
After recapitulating the evidence, his Honour found a verdict for the 
plaintiff for £ 27 , and the costs of the suit. 
ARMY APPOINTMENTS. 
From the e London Gazette / of Tuesday , Aug. 23. 
Veterinary Medical Department. 
War Office, Pall Mall. 
Greatrex NadeNj gent., to be acting Veterinary Sur¬ 
geon, vice Dulley, who has resigned. 
OBITUARY. 
Died, on the 23d July, at Jersey, James Western, Esq., 
retired V. S., of the H. E. I. C. S., in the 39th year of his age. 
Mr. Western graduated at the Royal Veterinary College, 
London, in 1827. He was among those who were early ap¬ 
pointed as veterinary surgeons to the late Honorable East 
India Company’s army. Of a spare habit of body, active 
and energetic in mind—in proof of which, were it necessary, 
we might refer to the pages of this journal—for many years 
the climate of India agreed with him, and he was enabled 
uninterruptedly to pursue his professional avocations, and 
to maintain the respectability of his position. At length he 
experienced an attack of fever, and returned home on sick- 
leave, hoping that England would do for him that which it has 
done for so many of her sons when similarly affected. The at¬ 
mosphere of London—his native place—not suiting him, he 
went to the Channel Islands, and for a time appeared to be 
getting better. The malady, however, returned again and 
again. Death had too deeply plunged his fatal dart. The 
wound rankled long, but at length the contest ceased, and the 
once strong man yielded to the common lot of all. 
We were personally indebted to Mr. Western for much 
information respecting the action of medicinal substances on 
the horse in India, and also for many specimens of drugs 
used by veterinary surgeons there. 
“ Our lives are rivers, gliding free 
To that unfathom’d boundless sea, 
The silent grave! 
Hither all earthly pomp and boast 
Roll, to be swallowed up and lost 
Iu one dark wave.” 
