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Q. What did you do with the horse ? A. I then brought the horse 
up with this boy. I took the horse down to our headquarters, the 
office of the Society, and Dr. Coleman examined him. 
Q. You took him there for what purpose ? A. To be examined by 
a veterinary surgeon. 
(The witness was not cross-examined.) 
Dr. Joseph Coleman, being duly sworn, testified : 
Q. You are a veterinary surgeon ? A. Yes, sir. 
Q. Practising in the City of New York ? A. Yes, sir. 
Q. How long have you been engaged in such practice ? A. 
Since 1863. 
Q. You are now employed by the Society for the Prevention of 
Cruelty to Animals ? A. Yes, sir. 
Q. And were so employed on the 3d of October last ? A. Yes, sir. 
Q. On the afternoon of that day, do you remember having exam¬ 
ined a horse brought to you by the last witness ? A. Yes, sir. 
Q. To the headquarters of the Society? Yes, sir. 
Q. State to the jury whether that horse had any disease, and if so, 
what disease ? A. I made a very careful examination of this case, and 
I came to no other conclusions, from the symptoms present, than that 
the horse had glanders. Every symptom of the disease was present — 
among them the enlargement of the sub-maxillary glands. 
Q. I hose glands indicate what the enlargement was ? A. In con¬ 
junction with other symptoms. 
Q. What other symptoms, beside the enlargement of the sub-max¬ 
illary glands, were apparent ? A. Flux from the nostrils, of a peculiar 
character. 
Q. Did it develop into any color ? A. It ran into a gluey con¬ 
sistency. 
Q. 1 here are various stages in the disease known as glanders? A. 
Ves, sir ; it runs from one to the other, and assumes different forms at 
different times. 
Q. Was this flux at the nostrils so apparent that you detected it by 
looking into his face ? A. By examining him. 
Q. How did you ascertain it? A. First by looking at it. Judging 
from the senses of sight and color and by feeling it with my fingers, 
this gluey consistency, which taken with other circumstances and other 
symptoms is characteristic of that disease. 
Q. State anything else in jour examination that indicated the 
