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prevent free passage, and bring on inflammation : That in his 
opinion a change of stable and diet would not bring on such a 
growins: as the one above described : That a horse on whose 
intestines there is a growing of the size just now alluded to will 
have a healthy appearance until the disease comes to irritate upon 
any of the vital parts : That after a growth had fixed on the 
intestines, the horse might have a healthy appearance for the . 
period of three weeks. It is impossible, from the size and 
solidity of any growth found on the intestines of a horse, to fix 
the exact period of its commencement. 
Compeared William Dick, veterinary surgeon in Edinburgh, 
who being solemnly sworn, &c. and interrogated for the de¬ 
fender, depones (after hearing the facts, as stated in the pur¬ 
suer’s proof, read over to him, as contained in the evidences of 
Charles Goudie and Thomas Wright), That the intestines of a 
horse are connected to the spine by the mesentery. Does not 
recollect to have seen any case of diseased adhesion of the in¬ 
testines to the mesentery ; but that substance might become 
thickened or enlarged, either by chronic or acute inflammation ; 
and that if much enlarged, it might have the appearance of a 
growing, to a person ignorant of the anatomy of a horse. De- 
])ones. That adhesion can never take place without previous 
inflammation, which is the cause of it. Depones, That if, upon 
dissection after death, a large growing should be found upon the 
intestines of a horse, it is impossible for any one who had not 
seen the horse till within a day or two of his death, to say, from 
inspection, that the adhesion or disease had been upon him for 
any particular period—certainly not for six months ; but much 
would depend upon the nature of the tumour. Depones, That in 
the whole of his practice, he never saw an instance of a diseased 
growing of the small guts to the back at the kidneys. Depones, 
That he never met with any case of a growth, such as that 
described by Charles Goudie, as stopping the mouth of the anus. 
Depones, That he considers such a growth of a very rare occur¬ 
rence ; and that, although he has met with growths or tumours 
in various parts of the abdomen, he never saw or heard of such 
a one as that described as having occurred in the horse in ques¬ 
tion. Depones, That where there is a growing on the lungs, as 
described in this case, there is always a dei'angement of the ge¬ 
neral health ; and that where an obstruction is produced in the 
manner described, he should expect occasional derangement in 
the bowels. Depones, That it is quite possible for a horse, 
labouring under disease of the lungs, to have a glossy coat, 
although generally it has the opposite effect. Depones, That the 
diseases described, when combined, would be more apt to de- 
