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ongiit not only to be treated witb as much delicacy, but, when at-
tacked, ought to be protected with as much vigilance. This was
certainly the most estnunslimuy case he had ever heard before In
the course of his pmfessionai experience. Ile rmild appeal with
confidence to his Lordship, and to all his beamed Friend. round the
table' if they hail ewer heard such a case as this M a Court of Jus-
tice, brought upon evidence similar to that which his Learned
Brother had this day rested his action upon ; for it was neither more
nor Itss than a charge against a medical man (and the evidence did
nut go e. tittle beyond it) for not bringing competent judgment to the
management of a ;indent. His Learned Brother did not venture
to ask whether the dislocation was capable of reduction ; but the
axe even went beyond that; he did not venture to ask one of his
witnesses if a want of care had been noticed by them on the part of
the defendant ! Ile smold ask the fientlemen of the Jury, was it
enough to show against a medical man that an accident of a very
serious nature hail not been relieved? Was it in the power of a
medical man, or of any finite being, to ensure success ? All they
could he expected to do was to use care and judgment in the treat-
ment of any suffering a patient might labour under, whether that
arose frous an seciiient or disease : and that his client did use care
and judgment hr was satisfied that lie should be able to never. Ile
would show that the legs of the patient had been particular objects
of Mr. Perry's attention ; and besides, if lie were not in a condition
to prove that so abundantly as he should be able to do, was it
credible that Mr. Perry, a man of thirty years' practice, should
have fallen into such an error as not to have attended to so animist
a point, with respect to which tl.cy had only the evidence of the
titan Short. The fact was, when Sir. Perry was first calk,' in, he
found the hip dislocated, and he made an attentpt to retinx it, in
which he was unsuccessful. Ile made a second attempt, in which
he reduced the dislocation. When lie hail done that, he tied the
patient's legs together. and ortered her to lie still. The rest time
Mr. Perry called he Mum, Mrs. Richards sitting up. Ile remon-
strated with her upon that conduct, and on his calling a second
time he found her in the same posture. She was sitting up after
lie had insisted upon tier lying ..quiet. Ile should also prove, that,
so satisfied was the plannili it friends with the management
of Mr. Perry, that they sent to thank Win for his treatment to Mrs.
Richards. It should seem that the plaintiff returned to Bristol on
the nth or 7th November, front Thornbury, where the was attended
by two surgeons. who operand upon her on the day after her sr-
rival. Now surely if the plaintilthati at.y diseatiefset ion at the
treatment she had experienced at the hands of Mr. Perry, she
ought to have sent to him to call upon her, and in the presence of
the medical gentlemen she was then employing, have asked him
far an explanation of his conduct. That would, to his mind, have
been a more proper course to ',armee than to sera the witness John
Short to threaten the defendant with an anion if he did not make
her compensation for the injury she chose to Kay hail been inflicted
upon item Under r.ll the eirettniatatices of this case, he confidently
thought that the Jury swill agree with him that no injury heel
been sustained by Mrs. Richards in conseenence of any want of
‘till Of care on the part of the plaintiff. Ile missed he should by
his winterises satisfy their minds un that point, and with that feel.
ing he should proceed with the cause.
Sarah Brown—l lire at the Anchor at Felton. and in Septem.
bet 1112.1, I remember the plaintiff being brought to my house in
consequence of an accident. Mr. Perry was sent far, and remained
with her an hour. After he was gone, Mrs. Richards said she was
very ill. anti could root lie on her right side, in consequence of her
having lain so much upon it when she had a had leg before. i de-
sired her to lie quiet on her right sittz, bet she said she could not,
and moved herself with her hands. Mr. I'erry called upon her
every day during the week she was in niy house. The nest time
I went into Mrs. Richards's room I found her sitting.
Cross-examined —When she was put into the cart to go away,
she etritipininvi of her foot more than her hip. i can't recollect
whether Air. l'etry returned un the Sunday. Short and Mrs. Smith
came to Felton.
Sarah live at Felton, and was with Mrs. Richards
on the day of the accident. I was sent for by Mrs. Brown. I wes
there when Mr. Perry Caine. Ile examined the patient's hip, and
said it was out. She lay oti her hack on the bed. tier husband
kneeled over her and held her. There were three of us pulling at
her with towels, when Mr. Perry said it would not do, we must
try ngain. We dud try again, Mr. Perry putting Mrs. Richards**
feet together. Mr. Perry's coat was off at the time; he pullttl with
great force, and perspired very 'nisch. lien two legs and knees
were then straight. llrr legs app eareti to be of the some length.
Mr. Perry then examined her hip, moved her leg, and said her
legs were even. She then dew her knee op to her body, being bol-
stertsi up at the time. She said she felt much pain when tinder the
operation, but she will emitter afterwards. Mr. Perry applied ban.
tinges round herhip and middle, and scud, '• Now it will do." Aster
Mr. Perry went, Mrs. Richards did not lie still. She kept see.
sawing baeloranis and forwarda. I did not see her after the first
ohm.
i'rost-esaminecl-1 believe there were two towels used, me was
tied round Mr. Perry's arm, and the other round Mini. Richards's
thigh. After the secord attempt she said she was easier.
Martha Beard—l attended Mrs. Richards at Felton. I saw
Mr. Perry there, and was present at the operation he performed
upon tare. (The witniss here confirmed In every particular the
evidence of Sarah Wilcox.)
James Ininiani—l live in the New Passage, and remember
seeing Mr. Richards krill Ills wife was removed to Thornbury.
lie desired me to tell Mr. Perry his wife was better.
Mr. It. Smith.—l have been a surgeons nearly thirty years, and
almost all that time I have been an hospital surgeon. 'l'lte capacity
to move the knee towards the belly was proof that the dislocation
was reduced ;any violent motion front a carriage might rupture the
annular ligament. Re-dislocation would be rendered more facile,
if .previonts injury in the system had existed. I know Mr. Perry ;
he has practised as a surgeon. After dislocation and reduction, the
pain would be diminished tau y reduction. The position of the feet
was a proner thing for a unethical man to attend to.
Cross-examirtal.After a dislocation, great motion is necessary
to prevent ins getting out aim place again. l'he patient ought to
be kept quiet. They ought not to be removed for a week, ten
days, or a fortnight. 1 think a patient ought to rennin quiet a fort-
night.
Re-examined—lf a patient was sit an Tnn, and tin:lout to be re-
moved, I should not think a surgeon reprehensible in suffering her
to he removed in a week. .

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31r. 11. Low—l am a surgeon in Whim!. There are several
kinds of dislocation of the hip-joint. In the dislocation of upwards
and outwards, the thigh-Imitie is perceptible in a thin person,
and a sign of dislocation. The position of the knee and foot Is
another sip of dislocation. 1r the patient could more the leg up-
wards at that time, the hip could not be ilistocued. I never saw a
rupture of the areitabuturts ; hut in case of a rupture or it, I should
think it would not be easily discoverable. Wit is Demury in cases
of high dislocation.
Cross-esaiiiined.—The ordinary dislocation is upwanls and out.
tetnts. lo that ease the foot and die knee would turn inwards. _

Mr. 11'allis-1 ant a professm of anatomy, and practitioner of
medicine. If alter dislocation the legs of the patieot were of their
mutual length, I should not doubt that reduction had taken place.
The moving the limb to the body was another proof. A patient
moving about would retard recovery. The general state of the
mimes health would also operate upon recovery.
Mr. Daniel Saath—l have practised IS a surgeon ill years, and
as a htlepild NUTgeOll eight years.
This witness gave similar opinligas on all the points that had
I been referred to tic judgment of the medical ten a Ito had imme-
diately preceded him.
Mr. Nergemit PELL then replied, and—
The Cia rr Jasrtt a recapitulated the whole of the evidence
I with great minuteness, leaving to the Jury to say whether they
thought blame attached to the defendant.
VThe Jury, without a moment's hesitation, returned a verdict for
1 the defendant.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.

LANCASTER ASSIZES, 81 6.

NISI PRIM
1/101)te Mr. Ihnox IluLLoca. sad • Common Jary.l
tiIANDER.

viareaELL v. CON WALL.

Mr. IV, LLIAMS slated the nature of the action, which was
brought by his client against the defendant for a colup:nsation in
daniages for slanderous words matte use of by the defendant
against the plaintiff To prove which the Learned lientleman called
Hannah Ilreekell—Her husband's name is Themas Ilreckell.
Jmun Ilreckell, the plaintiff, is her stepson ; he tit:copies a tene-
ment of his father's; be buys and sells fruit. Thomas l'ornall,
the defendant. gets his bread by brining. She remembers a con.
vermilion about a Methodist chapel ; her husband and she were at
the defendant's house; their house was broken open whilst there,
and seven guinea notes, &c. stolen out. The defendant had called
her son a niethodiat rogue, and said that he had broken open his
father's house. Witness was all in a fluster, and did not know
what to do.
The old lady talked so much, and so fast. that Mr. Williams
was obliged to ask lice tabula her dark, or her words could not be
taken down.
Witness—l will tell the dory all about it if they will ask me.

Mr. WU. must tell me, woman. -
Witness—Well. be called her son a methodist rogue, and said
he had broken his father's house open.
Mr. IVI r. sts—Speak up, suntan.
IVitneas—Well, she was so Oustratcd. They said they would
pot him to the charge of IW.
Cross-examined by the.% T TOR NET-0 EN ( Mr. 5(3610--
ne said he would make hint fury IW. fur calling him mums ; his
futher never jodged any person. kat he should page wrong.
Thomas Worthington examined by Mr. Vi 1L1A...24%—A1. is a
husbandman. and knows both Parties; he went with the plaintdd
to the defendant's house in June last, and found hint at home.
The plaintifl'told defendant that be had come to settle with
Defendant's wife said titer had nothing to settle; he dentataled the
sum of V. Ws. from him. The defendant said, be nil' fora molnaliat
rogue. and seized hint by the breast is order to put him out of do.tra.
The deferdant said he was a methodist rogue. and had broken upon
his father's hem; that it was true, and that he did not lie.
The JUDON—Can you carry this case further? if not the
plaintiff' must be called. You prove any thing but what is declared.
1 he words in she declaration thfrering from those stated by the
witmascs, the plaintdr was 'unsuited.

• .
EJECT 51 ENT.
HOF DEM. CLAM: ANTI ANOTHER P. 13Fait.

Mr. STAP .F. opened the pleadings, and
The TT OR/IF.Y_lirw En AL said this wan an action of eject-
ment, brought by the lemur of the plaintiff to recover from the de-
fendant certain realign known by the sign of the Hare and
Hounds. • public-house situate in Blackburn. in this counts..
which wii% bought by the executors of Clark. The defendant had
over, an.! had pleaded Not littilty, on which issue hau been joined.
Mr. STARK I E then proceeded to call witnaete.t.
lieniamin King examined—He knows (lent y Dean. the defend-
ant ; he occupies the Hare. and Hounds public-house. in Black-
burn. Ile was employed by Clark at.! Iloastd, as ccceutors of