610 Kidd V. Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
barley or barley-meal in one feed given to animals that are stall-fed produce 
the same effect. I have seen pea-meal also. 
Q. You say you have seen the effect produced by barley or barley-meal ? — 
A. In one feed I have seen it produce the effect. 
Q. Produce tympanitis ? — A. Yes. 
Q. And accompanied by the same symptoms as in this case ? — A. By pre- 
cisely the same symptoms as we see in this case. 
Q. In life and ^osi mortem? — A. Yes. 
Q. Can you give me any other illustration '? As I understand, you are now 
speaking from your own practice ? — A. Of my own practice. I have seen it 
when a beast has been eating wurzel, and swede turnips, and straw. 
Mr. Justice Blackbuen : Did I understand you to say that, in the case of 
the barley-meal, the animals were in the field or tied up? — A. Animals stall- 
fed. I have seen it also when they are eating wurzel, or turnips, and wheat- 
straw. I have seen when wheat-straw has been substituted for barley-straw, 
or vice versa, that it has had precisely the same effect as what I have named. 
Mr. Seymoue: Resulting in tympanitis with these same symptoms? — 
A. Yes, I have seen the same thing occur from changing wurzel or turnips to- 
potatoes. 
Q. Was the change of wurzels for potatoes that you mention in the case of 
stall-fed cattle ?^A. Yes. 
Q. Did you say potatoes substituted for wurzel, or wurzel for potatoes?— 
A. Potatoes substituted for wurzel — a change of food. 
Q. You have seen tympanitis resulting from that ? — A. Yes, I have also 
seen the same effect produced by giving grains on the first or second occasion. 
I have seen them produce exactly the same effect as wurzel. 
Q. And is this a frequent disease among cattle? — A. A very common 
disease. 
Q. Are there known instruments of surgery that are kept for the purpose of 
being used in such cases ? — A. Yes, and my opinion is that if it had been used 
on this occasion we should not have heard of a cow dying. 
Q. There is an instrument that can be used for making an incision in the 
stomach and relieving the gas ? — A. Yes. J 
Q. And is that generally known among cattle-doctors ? — A. Yes, I believe 
it is pretty generally known. 
Mr. Justice Blackbuen : It was known as long ago as the time of Sir 
Walter Scott's novels, for I remember a simile that he used in one of them — 
" Like a cow that has been fed on wet clover, and given a jag to let the vfini 
out." I think we may take it for granted that every man on the Jury per- 
fectly well knows that cows sometimes get hoven. 
Mr. Seymodb : Is your opinion affected by the fact that a number of these 
beasts all treated in the same way showed the same symptoms ? — A. Yes. 
Q. Do you attach anything to the fact that there is a plurality?— 
A. Nothing more than I have named. 
Mr. Justice Blackburn: What is it that you have named?— ^. I attach, 
my Lord, very great importance to the wurzel on this occasion being very 
much charged with moisture. 
Q. That I have understood, but I understood Mr. Seymour's question 
which he now asks you to be this— Whether you attach any weight to the 
fact that a good many cows fell ill at the same time ? — A. No. 
Mr. Seymour : The conditions being the same, do you attribute to the 
sanie cause the illness of the cattle ? — A. I should ; only that where the dis- 
ease was not so markedly developed it was that they had liad a smaller 
quantity of the cake. 
Q. For instance, you have known of cases of tympanitis and distension 
from taking clover? — A. Oh, that is a very common occurrence. 
