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the kidneys, and the growth extending downwards, which 
growth stopped the mouth of the fundament”—having been 
read to the witness, he depones. That he has difficulty in under¬ 
standing how a growth of the size described could have the 
effect of stopping the fundament, as, from the length of the 
mesentery at the posterior part of the intestines, a tumour of a 
foot in length would scarcely be sufficient to envelope it. De¬ 
pones, That there is a portion of the small guts which arises at 
the posterior part of the stomach, and is continued backward 
about fifteen inches close to the spine. The description of the 
state of the horse by Goudie, having been read over to him,— 
depones. That in all his practice he has met with nothing analo¬ 
gous to it; and that had so much stress not been laid on the 
tumour near the kidneys, he would have been of opinion the 
horse had died of inflammation of the lungs ; but from the 
symptoms not being stated prior to the death, he finds it impos¬ 
sible to come to a correct conclusion on the subject. All which 
is truth, &.C. 
Compeared William Henderson, veterinary surgeon in Edin¬ 
burgh, who being solemnly sworn, &c. and interrogated. De¬ 
pones (after hearing the facts, as stated in the pursuer’s proof, 
read over to him, as contained in the evidences of Charles Gou¬ 
die and Thomas Wright,) That the posterior portion of the intes¬ 
tines of a horse are connected to the spine by the mesentery. 
Does not recollect to have seen any case of diseased adhesion of 
the intestines to the mesentery; but that substance might become 
thickened or enlarged, either by chronic or acute inflammation. 
Depones, That a person who is in the practice of opening horses 
might be able to detect a derangement of that organ, and dis¬ 
tinguish it from a growth. Depones, 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 on the intestines of a horse, it is impossible for 
any one who had not seen the horse till within a day or two of 
its death, to say from inspection positively that the adhesion or 
disease had been upon him for any particular period, certainly 
not for six months, although from an examination of the 
tumours, they might come within a month or two of it, although 
he does not say positively they could do so. 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, nor does 
he believe it scarcely to be possible. Depones, That he never 
met with any case of such a growth or tumour as that described 
by Charles Goudie, as stopping the mouth of* the anus; nor has 
he ever heard of such a one. Depones, That in every case where 
