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very severe and dangerous ointment applied in the way stated 
by the witnesses. It would require 5J gallons of water to 
the ointment that now remains in the pot to make it fit for 
use. Arsenic remains in the system a considerable number 
of days. I do not think a pint of water thrown over the 
back of the sheep, after the ointment had been used, would 
have prevented fatal results, but have rather aggravated the 
effects. Arsenic produces sores on the skin of either animals 
or human beings outwardly applied. Biggs’s Dipping contains 
about the same quantity of arsenic as this would, if properly 
mixed. I should think very specific directions should be 
given with such ointment. 
Mr. Bowles , veterinary surgeon, of Abergavenny, stated — 
If the mixture produced contains the quantity of arsenic 
stated by Mr. Steel, it would produce death applied in the 
manner it has been. Half a pound of arsenic should be di- 
luted with twelve gallons of water, or a scruple to an ounce. 
Mr. Steel . — The ointment produced contains about \ \ oz. 
to the pound. 
Mr. Bowles . — Six ounces of arsenic is more than necessary 
for dressing forty-six lambs. 
Mr. Blount ably cross-examined the witnesses, but elicited 
nothing material except what has been stated. He then 
proceeded to address the jury, and reminded them that Mr. 
Dew had come into the shop to ask for ee dipping mixture,” 
and was it possible to suppose Mr. Davies could have thought 
a person would come to ask for such a thing and afterwards 
apply it in the way he did ? It would be for the jury to de- 
cide which was to be believed, Mr. Dew or Mr. Davies. He 
then called 
Thomas Bicton Davies, who deposed — I am assistant to Mr. 
Edwards, was apprenticed to Mr. Morgan, of Landilo Vawr, 
have lived with a druggist at Islington, and afterwards with 
a physician and apothecary in London. Had frequently to 
give out horse and cattle medicines. My father is agent to 
Sir James Hamlyn Williams, Bart., Caermarthenshire. Have 
had frequent opportunities of seeing sheep dipped in Bigg’s 
wash. When Dew came to the shop, he said Mr. Parry had 
lost his bill, and brought 22s. towards it, and wanted enough 
stuff to dip forty-six lambs. I asked him whether he would 
have Biggs’s composition, or the -mixture we make up our- 
selves ; he said he was to have v 7 hat v T e made up ourselves. 
Mr. Williams, of the Mardy, was in the shop at the time. 
While I w'as writing ce poison ” on the mixture, he asked me 
how he w 7 as to use it. I told him to mix half a pint or a pint 
of boiling w r ater w 7 ith it — enough to make it run, — and pour 
