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Cross-examined by Mr. Hamilton : The horse was thrashing 
about the stall. It was lying on its side. It would roll itsself 
up on its belly and then bring its head down on the floor. This 
continued for a half hour. 
The horse was in intense pain. Witness never saw a horse 
thrash its head so. He had no doubt that Maxwell was doing 
as well as he could. 
“Didn’t he stop his sweating after the doctor gave him a 
powder ? ” 
“Yes, he stopped breathing, too.” (Laughter). 
“I mean immediately after the doctor’s acts?” 
“No, he did not stop sweating then.” 
Mr. B. C. Miles, a constable of Portland, Me., called upon 
Maxwell the 13th day of December, and asked him if he had 
anything good for the rheumatism. He sold him a bottle of red 
liniment, and Miles placed him under arrest for pouring the 
liniment in the horse’s ear. The liniment was produced in court. 
The proper treatment for a horse suffering from inflammation 
of the bowels would be the use of hot baths, hypodermic injec¬ 
tion of morphine, the use of stimulants, etc. 
There is no passage by which fluid poured into the ear could 
reach the bowels. 
Witness smelled of the bottle of red liniment and said he 
should say there was chloroform in it. If an ounce of chloroform 
in a quart of water was administered, it would raise a blister. It 
is so used to blister the mucous membrane. It is used as an 
irritant. 
Cross-examined : He had practised for five years. He came 
to Portland, Me., in the fall of 1890. Had practised previously 
in Salem, Mass. His age was 25 years. Witness described his 
examination of the horse, which led him to determine the cause 
of its death. He couldn’t say how much chloroform was in the 
red liniment. It is an irritant. It is not soothing in its effect if 
it is an irritant. It is only used to as a counter-irritant. He 
found a dozen, more or less, blisters in the horse’s ear. 
If a horse is troubled with the colic he would not have any 
