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and they also appeared to be dying. I lifted one up, when it 
immediately commenced running round about and against any 
thing that happened to be in its way, or, meeting with an un- 
yielding object, it stood thrusting its head against it. The other 
would not stand at all. 
We gave them some purgative medicine, but without any 
effect, for they soon died. 
I made inquiry of the man who fed them. He said that he 
had given them some dressings of barley a few hours before 
I saw them, in which was a great quantity of “ sturdy ,” ( loiiurn 
temulentum.) 
On opening them, their stomachs and .intestines were found 
to be highly inflamed. The lungs also were sadly congested. 
It is often remarked by old people, that they were formerly in 
the habit of mixing the lolium with malt, when brewing beer, as 
its intoxicating nature is very great ; hence, I suppose, its name 
“ sturdy” 
A CASE OF VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
By the same . 
The sheriff of Banffshire granted a warrant for a mare, con- 
cerning whose health there was much dispute, to be killed if 
found to be glandered. She w j as destroyed. The person who 
bought the mare then commenced an action at law to recover the 
price he had paid for her. The affair was ultimately referred to 
A. W. Gardiner, Esq., Melrose. I send you his decision of ihe 
case. Should you think it worth insertion in The Veterina- 
rian, it is at your service. 
Decision of a Case between William Murray and, Tames Kinnaird , 
referred to* A. W. Gardiner , Esq. 
“ Having examined witnesses in the case between William 
Murray and James Kinnaird, I find that Mr. Tait, veterinary 
surgeon, declares it to be his opinion that the said mare must 
have had glanders for at least three months previous to the time 
at which she was destroyed, and, therefore, was labouring under 
that disease at the time Murray bought her. He bought her as 
having merely a cold, and that for a short time only, which is 
attested by three out of four witnesses, and Kinnaird did not tell 
Murray that she was running at the nose when he (Kinnaird) 
first got her, but which he now admits was the case. 
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