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opened, and it was so much decayed that it would not bear taking 
out: it must have been caused by long-standing disease. 
Cross-examined .—I am a kennel huntsman, and cut up horses 
for the dogs; in doing so I have had opportunities of seeing 
diseased parts; I think, therefore, I am as good a judge as any 
veterinary surgeon can be of the cause of this horse’s death. 
Thomas Barrow .—I am a veterinary surgeon at Ban well, and 
have been in business since 1844. I was called to see this mare on 
the 4th of January; I considered that she was labouring under 
bronchitis; she was very dull, had lost her appetite, and was very 
languid; her eye looked yellow, which indicated bile; I therefore 
thought the liver was affected, and I gave her the medicines 
usually administered in such cases: her breathing was rather 
stertorous, that is, frequent and loud; the pulse beat very softly; 
the symptoms were not prominent enough to enable me to dis¬ 
tinguish any other disease; she improved under my care, and on 
the 15th of January I left her. I was again called on the 27th, and 
found her dangerously ill; the attendants despaired of her recovery; 
the symptoms were different then—the pulse being higher, the 
breathing more hurried, and the eyes worse; she then appeared to 
be labouring under inflammation of the lungs, besides the liver 
disease; she was so weak that I was afraid to bleed, as I should 
otherwise have done. I gave her sedative medicines, and em¬ 
ployed counter-irritants; I sat up with her the whole night and 
great part of the next day: she died on the 30th, and I opened 
her; suppuration had commenced in the cavity of the chest; there 
were also adhesions of the pleura, indicating chronic disease. In 
the liver I found chronic disease to an immense extent; the liver 
was so bad that no one could recognise it as a liver; it was a 
complete pulpy mass; there was not a portion of it sound as large 
as a nut; it could not have been so affected in a shorter period than 
six months; horses may work several months with a complaint of 
this kind; the horse could not have been sound either in liver or 
lungs on the 21st of December. My bill was £2..9s..6d. 
Cross-examined .—I bled the mare, but only took six ounces in¬ 
stead of sixteen. I administered setons, balls, and blisters in one day: 
it was pretty active treatment, but not more so than the case called 
for; an acute inflammation is more painful than this horse had at 
first, and is shewn by the animal’s pawing and rolling about. 
Mr. Cockburn, for the defence, said the main question would be, 
was the mare sound at the time she was sold 1 She died on the 
30th of January; she was sold on the 21st of December. With a 
view to shew that she was not sound when sold, it had been 
attempted to prove that the lassitude she exhibited on reaching 
Banwell was connected with the diseases which caused her death. 
