VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE, 
773 
Witness .—He mljjht. 
His Honour .—This is important, and let me take it carefully. Ho you 
mean to say, Mr. Buckeridge, that if the horse was taken twenty-five 
miles in three hours, it might receive permanent injury ? 
Witness. —I mean to say that a horse might receive an injury which 
would render him permanently unsound hy his stepping on a stone or 
kicking against some hard substance, 
3Ir. Barlrum (in cross-examination).—Should you, as a veterinary sur¬ 
geon, recommend a customer of yours to purchase a horse with flat, feet ? 
Witness .—Recommend liim ? 
Mr. Bartrum. —Would it be judicious to select a horse with flat feet ? 
Witness .—Certainly not. 
Mr. Bartrum. —Don’t you know it is the very thing to'avoid? 
Witness .—Yes, but it don’t constitute disease. 
Mr. Bartrum. —Is it judicious to purchase a horse with flat feet ? 
Witness. —I should not purchase a horse particularly with flat feet. 
Mr. Bartrum. —Don’t let us have conditions. AVould you have pur¬ 
chased a horse at a fair price ? 
Witness. —Yes. 
Mr. Bartram. —Would you recommend others to buy a horse with flat 
feet ? 
Witness. —No. 
Mr. Bartrum. —Then there must be some good reason why you would 
not. What is it ? 
Witness. —In travelling a journey like this, it would be very liable to 
tread on a stone. These horses are more likely to be injured than other 
horses, but they are not so liable to chronic diseases as others. 
Mr. Bartrum. —Are not flat-footed horses subject to a disease called 
laminitis (fever of the foot) ? This will appear in a Veterinary Journal, so 
pray be careful. 
Witness. —No, I don’t know that they are. 
Mr. Bartrum. —Now if a horse has low heels, is it not liable to become 
lame ? 
Witness. —It would want careful shoeing. 
Mr. Bartrum. —I did not ask that. Is not a horse with low heels liable 
to become lame ? 
Wit?iess. —Not if he were properly shod. 
Mr. Bartrum. —You have heard the evidence of the witnesses; to what 
do you attribute the lameness of the animal ? 
Witness. —I did not see the horse before the sale. 
Mr. Bartrum. —You have heard the evidence; what reason do you 
assign for the lameness ? 
Witness. —According to the blacksmith’s evidence there was a good foot, 
and I should think it met with an accident. He might have struck his 
toe against a stone or some hard substance, and thus have produced 
inflammation in the covering of the bone or in the bone itself. 
Mr. Bartrum. —Lameness might be produced in a single night by that ? 
Witness .—Oh yes ; in a minute, or half-a-minute. 
Mr. Bartrum. —Permanent lameness ? 
Witness. —Yes, after an accident. The horse might not be lame until 
he came to rest, or it might show itself at the time. 
Mr. Bartrum.-^^\x\>^osQ the horse had trod on a stone, would that 
produce permanent lameness ? 
Witness. —It might or it might not. 
Mr. Bartrum. —Then do you mean to say that a flat-footed horse is a 
sound horse ? 
