7? On PUIang Cafflc. 



From the loss of blood trxir eyes have then soon become 

 diluted and insens.ble. 



*' In the old method of slaughtering, a concu.s?ion oi 

 the brain take> plice. and therefore \.hf poaer offteliiig is 

 fl.'stroved. The anim?.] drops, and a!thovi<:h convulsions 

 t ikc place generallv longer and more violent than when the 

 t-pinal marrow i? divided^ yet there is, 1 think, reason to 

 IvJieve that the animal -suffers l-ess pain. 



" The irrnnediate consvcjucncc of the blow is the dUatii- 

 t Oil of the pupil of tlieeve, v.-ithout ar.v expression of eon- 

 f..Jousnei;s or fear on the approach of the hand. 



" Jn this state of insensibility, whicli in man would be 

 tailed apoplc.w, or extreme stupor, th.e blood is aUvays- 

 drawn off by the btztehcr cutting the throat, and the animal 

 dies without the least sign of fvelino- or uneas-v faintness. 



" In severe epilepsy the br.lin &uflers- a temporary sus- 

 pension of power,, i.n many respects very similar lo the 

 tonciission of the brain from a blow, only that the convul- 

 sions and expressions of pain seem greater : yet the paiients 

 uniformly agree, that they do not recollect any pain ; the 

 leason is obvious,, the disca.-^e is a suspension oi" the powcp 

 <jf feeling. 



" From all these crreuni'tanccs 1 conclude that the new 

 method of slaughtering cattle is n)ore p.ainful tlian the old.. 

 T!ie puncture of the medulla spinalis does notdestroy feel- 

 ing, though it renders the body quiescent ; and in this state 

 the animal both endures pain at the punctured part, anel 

 iulur.s, as it were, a second death, from the pain and faint- 

 ness Ironi loss of blood In cuuing the throat, which is^ 

 practised in boih nuthods." 



Copy of a L((k-r frr,?nllv}-.nM\D ITo.mr, Bsfj. to Lord 



C.MIUING TON. 

 " MV LOISD, 



*' I bad tlu! honour of presenting to vonr lordship, 

 through sir Joseph i^anks, some opcriuifuts and obser- 

 vatioiis made by a surgeon at .Shrew;J)Mrv, to sliow tliat the 

 mode adopted in this country, of killing animals by wound- 

 irig the spmrd marrow, is less humane than- the luore com- 

 mon one of kncjcking thvm down. 



" I have, at v<vjr Ioid<lvip's request, re])(;ated (Tiese expe- 

 riments, and find the results agree with those of tlie author 

 of the paper in every respect ; but the want of success 

 appears to ai;ise entirely I'rom the operation ha\ ing been 

 peflormed in a very imperfect niaiu^er. 



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