HORRIBLE CRUELTY INFLICTED ON SOME HORSES. 1ST 
lie experienced yesterday returned, and lasted until death, which 
took place about one o'clock the succeeding morning. 
The body and head were both thoroughly examined. The 
lungs were found reddened ; but I looked upon the increase of 
dye as but a consequence of the accelerated pulmonary action 
occasioned by the fits of irritation. 
No morbid appearance whatever was detected in the brain. 
CASES OF HORRIBLE CRUELTY INFLICTED ON 
SOME HORSES. 
Communicated by Mr. Symonds, of Bungay. 
A Mr. Favell, farmer, Geldeston, five miles distant from 
Bungay, has met with a very serious loss, from the death of five 
valuable horses out of seven, his property, in a mysterious man¬ 
ner. I was called to the fourth horse on Tuesday, Dec. 8th, at 
three, p.m. A farrier, named Hinds, was attending, who stated 
that the first, a mare, seven years old, was taken ill on the Thurs¬ 
day morning previous, and died the next morning. The second, a 
mare, four years old, became ill the following Sunday night, and 
died on Monday at noon. The third, a bay horse, taken on 
Monday evening, died on Tuesday, 11 a.m. Their symptoms 
were similar to gripes. This last horse, with the remaining four, 
were bled and physicked on Ike day previous to his being at¬ 
tacked, and had taken, on the Tuesday morning, spirit of turpen¬ 
tine two ounces, sweet spirit of nitre one ounce, laudanum 
half an ounce. The treatment of the three horses consisted of 
bleeding, purging physic, and the abovenamed drench. He said 
the horses died (using his expression) with the bursting of the 
large vessel of the heart; and the only fact I could ascertain was, 
the presence of considerable effusion of blood in the abdomen 
of each. 
My patient was attacked about three hours from the death of 
the third horse. He was a large well-formed animal, in good con¬ 
dition, and about twelve years of age. The symptoms w ere similar 
to spasmodic colic, except not rolling when dow T n; he merely 
dropping on his body, then rising, looking backward to his sides, 
pawing violently with his fore feet, and endeavouring to strike 
his belly with the hind ones. Pulse 80, and weak, scarcely to 
be felt at the heart; breathing increased, but not laborious, and 
the abdomen somew hat painful to the touch, and very tense. He 
had been tw ice bled before I saw him. The medicine given on the 
previous day had not operated. I ordered his body to be blistered ; 
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