VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
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Mr. Smith gave the mixture, with the printed directions, to his 
men, who it was proved were unable to read or write. They 
managed the dipping of the sheep, but Mr. Smith himself was not 
present during the operation. There were 110 sheep dipped and 
137 lambs. Within three or four days of the operation 18 died, as 
the plaintiff asserted, from an over large mixture of arsenic in the 
fluid ; and for their loss, as well as for the expenses incurred by the 
veterinary surgeon’s attendance and medicine, amounting in all to 
upwards of j£200, this present action was brought. 
The defendant’s case was that the mixture was perfectly good 
and properly compounded : that it had been in use among various 
flockmasters for some time past ; and that the mischievous result 
was caused entirely by the ignorance and mismanagement of the 
defendant’s men, who had not mixed a sufficient quantity of water, 
as pointed out by the directions, with the contents of each bottle 
of the solution. 
The jury found a verdict for the defendant. — Times. 
SENDING BAD MEAT TO LONDON. 
Alleged Existence of a Nail in the Heart of the Animal, 
AND THE FREQUENT PRESENCE OF METALLIC SUBSTANCES IN' 
this Organ. 
On July 16th, at the Guildhall police court, Thomas Fisher, a 
knacker, carrying on business at Mattishall, in Norfolk, was sum- 
moned before Sir Sydney H. Waterlow for sending three quarters 
and a half of beef to the London market for sale as human food, 
“ the same being diseased, unsound, unwholesome, and unfit for the 
food of man.” 
Mr. Baylis prosecuted on behalf of the Commissioners of Sewers, 
and said that the animal belonged to a grazier in the defendant’s 
neighbourhood, and having the lung disease he sent to the defendant 
to kill it for the dogs. He attempted to drive it home, but it fell 
in the road, and he was obliged to kill it there. He afterwards 
took the carcase to a slaughter-house and had it dressed. The ribs 
had been stripped to hide the mark where the lungs had adhered to 
them — a thing that was never done in the case of healthy beasts. 
The meat was sent to London, but when it arrived here it was entirely 
unfit for human food, and was brought to this court and condemned. 
Evidence having been given in support of Mr. Baylis’s statement, 
the defendant contended that the meat was fit for human food when 
he sent it from Norfolk, but that the hot weather had made it 
become putrid. He considered it a clean, healthy beast, and too 
good for the dogs. When the animal dropped down he did think 
it had lung disease, but when it was opened he saw that it had 
fallen from its having a nail in its heart. 
One of the witnesses — a butcher — stated that he had known 
many cases where animals had a nail or a needle in the heart and 
lived for months. In one case an animal had a small rod of wire in 
its heart and yet lived for some time. 
