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but he ordered some castrol oil, which he believes was given t 
That he did not order this castrol oil under the impression that 
the hoi’se was labouring under an inflammation, but only as a safe 
medicine: That he considers, that half an ounce of laudanum, 
and half an ounce of nitre, could have done the horse no harm : 
That the principal part of the growing was upon the kidneys: 
That the growth he saw upon the horse was inflamed at the time, 
and he saw no other inflammation upon the horse. Interrogated, 
If the intestines of the horse had been inflamed for any length of 
time previous to his being opened ? Depones, That they were 
not, but that the part where the growing was attached to was 
inflamed: That from the appearance of the horse after he saw 
him opened, he might when living sometimes do his work, and 
sometimes not: That the deponent has often seen horses opened 
which had died of inflammation, and the appearances of inflam¬ 
mation were of a red colour, and not of the appearance which the 
horse in question had ; and he considered the disease of the 
horse perfectly incurable. Interrogated, What, in the deponent’s 
opinion, occasioned the growing in the horse in question ? De¬ 
pones, That he cannot say, and he never saw a horse in the same 
situation as the horse in question. All which is truth, &c. 
Robert Murray, farmer in Dunnymuck, depones. That he 
looked at the intestines of the horse, and saw a growing from 
one of the lobs of the liver, and which w^ent down along the 
back, and grew into the intestines of the horse : That there 
was a little appearance of redness on the growing part and to¬ 
wards the intestines, but none on the intestines generally : That 
this growing w'as something of the appearance of a cow’s udder 
or lure, and of a solid substance : That this growing was from 
eight to ten inches long, and from one to two inches thick, and 
nearly as broad as long, and it tapered down towards the back. 
Defender s Proof 
Thomas Ryle, innkeeper in Girvan, depones. That he saw 
the horse after he was opened, and it appeared that adhesion 
had taken place about the kidneys, and the kidneys were con¬ 
siderably inflamed: That it is possible that adhesion will take 
place without inflammation ; and where adhesion has taken 
place, inflammation generally pitches upon that place : That 
inflammation might have been four or five days on the horse 
before he died; but adhesion or growths might have been on 
the horse months before he died. Interrogated, Whether, after a 
horse has been seized with inflammation in the kidneys, he will 
have a healthy appearance, and perform his work without diffi¬ 
culty? Depones, That he could not. Depones, That on the day 
