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He fancied that the seizure was owing to a coup de sang, and bled 
the animals accordingly ; but the loss of blood seemed to do harm 
rather than good, for 11 animals died almost immediately afterwards. 
A veterinary surgeon who was summoned, immediately detected 
the cause of the mischief in the great admixture of ranunculi with 
the grass. He, therefore, at once recommended that the bleedings 
should be discontinued, and a dose of sulphuric ether in milk be 
given to all the affected animals. Under this treatment the 
alarming symptoms quickly subsided, and although for some days 
the sheep remained very feeble and tottering on their legs they all 
recovered completely. 
Singular and disgraceful Decision. 
At the Aylesbury petty sessions, held a short time since, a 
farmer of Aylesbury was charged, at the instance of the Society 
for the Suppression of Cruelty, with having maliciously, cruelly, 
and wantonly, tortured an in-pig sow, rendering himself liable to 
a fine of 40s. The solicitor for the defendant urged that a sow 
was not an animal contemplated by the act of Parliament under 
which the information was laid, because in the act there were 
several animals enumerated, but not the least mention made of a 
sow. The case upon these grounds was dismissed. Shameful!! 
Shameful Usage of a Horse. 
To a considerable portion of this shameful story the writer was 
a witness : — 
Samuel Knight, a carman in the service of his brother, David 
Knight, a milk-man and cow-keeper in Hanger-lane, Tottenham, 
was charged with the following cruelty : — He was driving a horse 
in a heavily-laden milk-cart, with blood trickling from its belly into 
the road. One of the constables employed by the Society for the 
Suppression of Cruelty saw him, and immediately stopped him and 
examined the horse, and found him to be perfectly covered with 
sores and ulcers. He took off the harness, and found beneath the 
cart-saddle a deep wound, nearly as large as the crown of a man’s 
