Kidd V. Royal Aaricultural Society of England. 
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Mr. Justice Blackbuen : I suppose Mr. Seymour will net as he did 
yesterday. 
Mr. Seymour : My Lord, I have not changed my character since yesterday, 
either as an advocate or as a man. 
Mr. Field : (to the Witness) Are you Professor of Veterinary Surgery to the 
Koyal Veterinary College '? — A. Yes, I am. 
Q, For how many years have you lield that position ? — A. At the present 
time I hold the position of principal of the Veterinary College, which I have 
only held since last November, but I have been attached to the Veterinary 
College as a teacher for thirty years. 
Q. And you have had great experience in the examination of animals, their 
structure and the causes from which accident and death happen to them ? — 
A. I have. 
Q. On the 20th February tell us what you received in a box by rail from 
Mr. Wells? — A. I received from Mr. Wells on the 20th February four 
stomachs with the spleen attached, two kidneys, liver, lungs, and heart of a 
shorthorn cow. 
Q. What would there be left of the intestines which you did not receive ? — 
A. The so-called large and small bowels. 
Q. Were what you received enough to enable you to fonn a judgment as to 
the cause of death in the animal ? — A. Quite so. 
Q. Did you make an examination of what j'ou saw ? — A. I made an exami- 
nation of all the parts, of which I have a note here. 
Q. Tell us if you please, what you found upon such examination ? — A. The 
stomachs were full of ingesta, and except two or three small patches of con- 
gestion in the lining membrane of the abomasam — that is the fourth stomach 
— were free from disease. The kidneys presented upon their surface a number 
of blood spots varying from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea, being the 
result of extravasation of blood upon the surface and into the structure of the 
glands — the kidneys — dealing with the kidneys as glands. The lungs were 
congested in patches and the right one contained two small abscesses full of 
inspissated pus and evidently the result of disease of the lungs, long since passed 
away so far as its active form was concerned. 
Mr. Justice Blackbuen : Is the "so far as its active form was concerned" 
a comment that you add now or from your notes ? — A. The words that I have 
now here in the note are " evidently of a remote ilate." 
Q. No doubt it is exactly the same meaning, but I will take your exact 
words? — A. It is the same meaning, but I thought from the way I put it, it 
would be a little clearer. The heart was firm in consistence, of normal colour, 
but beneath the endocardium — that is in the lining membrane of the heart — 
were a large number of spots or patches of extravasated blood. The liver was 
soft but in other respects healthy. The spleen contained a large quantity of 
black blood. The note goes on to say, the animal from which the above 
named parts were removed, was an animal supposed to have died from eating, 
newly purchased oil- cake, and several other cattle fed with the same cake 
showed symptoms of illness. The lesions described are not such as would be 
produced by an irritant poison. 
Mr. Field : Now, tell us to what in your judgment was the death of the 
animal due? — A. The conclusion come to from the examination, was that 
death immediately depended upon blood poisoning. 
Q. And in what manner in your judgment, having heard the evidence given 
in this cause toaether with your examination, was that blood poisoning pro- 
duced? — A. I believe that the blood poisoning was produced by the action of 
something deleterious immediately upon the nerves supplying the rumen. 
These nerves are by anatomists known as the pncumo-gastric nerves, or eighth 
pair. 
