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more rapidly into their systems later in the season than earlier in 
the season. What form they assume and how they grow and what 
are the conditions necessary to their growth, or how they are taken 
into the system we are still in ignorance. Those are questions it 
will take several years to solve. 
Dr. Meyer, Sr.: In respect to lame horses, I think we would 
do well to send them to the Chicago Sanitarium. I have seen so 
few lame horses here. I guess it is because the streets are so level 
that there is little occasion for spraining and the like. 
Chairman Hoskins: If there are no further remarks on that 
paper we will pass to the paper of Dr. Liautard on Veterinary 
Jurisprudence. I hope that the question of veterinary jurispru¬ 
dence has not been so thoroughly exhausted that there are no re¬ 
marks on that subject from as many States as we have represented 
here to-day. In some of them it must be that judicial decisions 
have already been rendered which will add interest to the consid¬ 
eration of this subject. 
President Huidekoper: If no one has anything to say, I would 
like to remark that this is a matter which should be thoroughly 
gone over and brought up again at the next meeting. I have had 
some experience myself with the Continental system which Dr. 
Liautard regards as better than our English system based on the 
words, “ Soundness ” and “ Unsoundness.” It is one that certain¬ 
ly is of great interest both to the purchaser and the seller. 
There is one point which Dr. Liautard did not bring out, and 
that is the Continental system with its prohibitory vices which 
the law charges the seller with, unless he is specifically relieved 
therefrom by the written contract of the buyer, in nine or thirty 
days as the case may be. Then too the law assumes only to 
cover the hidden vices. All open troubles, spavin, ringbone, or 
anything of that kind which can be seen by an ordinary ex¬ 
pert, they assume that the buyer ought to see and if he is not 
sufficiently expert then he should employ a proper one to make 
the examination for him. That allows the veterinarian to be 
in turn a great deal more lenient with the dealer. It allows 
the veterinarian to recommend the purchase of a horse with a 
visible blemish,which will not injure him, as in the case of a small 
