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more readily into fermentation tlian food of an opposite kind that did not 
contain so much water. 
Q. But admitting the habit of feeding the animals to be what you have 
heard, would 7 lbs. of wholesome cake produce that ? — A. Certainly not ; I 
myself, in own experience as a faiTuer, feed animals largely with mangold- 
■wurzels, and I have heard something of a bushel being given to these animals ; 
well, I myself had a bull who used to eat ten bushels of mangolds a day and 
never was tjTnpanitic. 
Q. "With regard to the qi^antity at one farm that was given, we heard that 
the beasts had 7 lbs., the cows 6 lbs. ; the quantity at the Airmyn Pastures 
was 4^ lbs., and the quantity at Sancton was 3 lbs. mixed up with chopped 
clover or chopped hay. Would those quantities induce j'ou to say that this illness 
was due to any wholesome cakes.? — A. Wholesome cake in no instance would 
have produced any mischief, but the results set up in the rumen which were 
shown by the amount of distension of the animals, and so on, and the tremor 
which was described 
Q. Would those be in the proportion to the amount of deleterious matter 
that was carried into the rumen of each animal, depending upon idiosyncrasy 
as well ? — A. Of course. 
Q. And would the mixture of chopped hay with the cake diminish the 
deleterious effect on the stomach ? — A. So far as the disengagement of gaseous 
matter is concerned, there being no roots there. 
Q. Under what conditions have you known hoven or tympanitis to be 
produced with regard to change of food or otherwise ? — A. It is far more likely 
to occur in the spring of the j'ear, when animals are turned from out of straw 
yards and sheds, and so on, into pasture-grounds ; but more especially if turned 
into green growing clover ; and more especially also if turned out early in the 
morning while the grass or clover is wet with dew ; consequently in some parts 
of the country the disease is called " dew-blown." 
Q. Do you know of any other conditions under which the disease has 
existed.? — A. Tympanitis not imfrequently exists as a symptom of disease 
of various kinds existing in the organism of the animal. 
Q. But that you negative in this case from the examination of the animal ? 
— A. Entirely so, 
Q. I think you told its to what, in your judgment, the patches of extrava- 
sation under the endocardium were due ? — A. They were due to the non- 
decarbonization of the blood, to the blood consequently becoming poisoned 
and leaving its vessels, as it is always known to do when it is in that impaired 
condition. 
Cross-examined hy Mr. Digbt Seymour. 
Q. If I understand you, you have given blood-poisoning as the result of 
non-decarbonization, that itself being the result of the process of fermentation 
and the pressure resulting from it which has been set up in the njmen ? — A. 
I do in certain cases, not in all cases. 
Q. In an ordinary case of tympanitis — tympanitis, for instance, from eating 
an excess of clover, which you have yourself described — what would be the 
symptoms.? — A. The animal's head would be thrown out, its mouth in all 
probability would be open, its tongue protruding, its eye fixed, the head 
absolutely horizontal, so as to carry on the respiration with greater facility, 
the abdomen greatly distended, and upon percussing the left side of the 
abdomen, a tympanitic sound. 
Q. And the feet standing in a fixed posture ? — A. When it is an extreme 
case the animal stands fixed. 
Mr. Justice Blackburn : Would there be any difference between the symp- 
