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THE DISTEMPER IN CATTLE. 
been held that an injury was not a wounding unless inflicted by 
some instrument, so that where a party bit off the finger of another, 
the judges decided that that was not a wounding under the statute, 
and the man was acquitted. He also contended that it was no 
maiming under the statute, for two reasons — first, in order to maim 
a horse it was necessary that an injury should be done to some 
member that was necessary for the horse’s defence — that the tongue 
was not such a member, and therefore it was no maiming; and, 
secondly, it was proved that the horse was none the worse for the 
injury, and it had been decided that, in order to constitute a maim- 
ing, the injury must be a permanent one. 
Mr. Bevan gave up the count for the wounding, but contended 
that it was a good count under the maiming ; and he cited a case 
where it had been decided that pouring vitriol into a horse’s eyes 
was a maiming under the statute. 
Mr. Justice Whiteman, having consulted Mr. Justice Patteson, 
decided that the objection with regard to maiming was not good ; 
but the second objection was fatal, there being no permanent injury. 
The prisoner was therefore acquitted. 
Times, Monday , July 22 d. 
We confess that we do not at all understand this strange special 
pleading. — Y. 
THE DISTEMPER IN CATTLE. 
By the Right Honourable the Earl OF Essex. 
I CANNOT resist giving a receipt for the treatment of beasts that 
may take the prevalent distemper. It shewed itself last winter in 
one of my yard stock, by its discharging abundant saliva from the 
mouth, with sore and inflamed tongue and gums — very dull — no 
appetite — confined bowels — and very hot horns. I desired the 
bailiff to give him one half-pint of the spirit of turpentine with one 
pint of linseed oil, repeating the oil in twenty-four hours, and again 
repeating it according to the state of the evacuations. At the end 
of twenty-four hours more, the bowels not having been well moved, 
I repeated both the turpentine and oil. 
In two days the beast shewed symptoms of amendment, and in 
three or four took to his food again, and did perfectly well. All 
the yard beasts and two of the fattening beasts have had it. Five 
others I had sent to London before the disease appeared, and 
all have been treated in the same manner with perfect success. 
Half-a-pint of turpentine is the smallest and one pint the largest 
dose during three or four days. Little food beside oatmeal gruel 
was given. 
