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A Pig choked by a Fish. 
(An Extraordinary Case.) 
A MAN employed by F. Wright, Esq., of Osmaston Manor, a 
short time ago, was sorting some store-fish out of one water-can 
into another, when he cast one of them alive into the pig-sty where 
a fat pig was. Instantly he heard the pig make such a singular noise 
as induced him to look into the sty, where he perceived the pig 
stretched out, apparently dying. Immediately the knife was called 
into requisition, 
“ When out gushed his life’s gore, 
And copiously stained the sandy floor. 
Mr. Gamble, farm-bailiff to F. Wright, Esq., opened the pig, or 
rather made the post-mortem examination ; when, behold! Mr. Fish 
was found head first at the bottom of the windpipe, where it divides 
into the bronchi, as dead as its greedy devourer. 
A Bull destroyed by a Drench of Spirits of Turpentine 
and Gin. 
In the summer of 1848 Mr. Critchlow Waterhouse had a bull a 
little fired with desire for copulation, for which the owner adminis- 
tered some ol. tereb. : the quantity was four ounces, mixed with 
four ounces of gin. Although the animal was a healthy one (with 
the exception above-named) when they began to drench him, 
before all the dose could be administered he was as dead as a 
stone. 
Spirits of turpentine and the other essential oils should never 
be given to animals without being diluted with some one of the 
fixed oils. I have known cases where ol. terebinth, has caused 
instantaneous death, even though mixed with water before it was 
administered to the animals. 
Your’s most respectfully. 
Ashbourne, Jan. 14, 1850. 
