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am inclined to believe that the action of the 

 stomach is sufficient to effect this, and that a 

 ruptured stomach is the result of vomiting, and 

 not the cause of it. This, however, is a disputed 

 point. 



Mr. John Gerrard, M.E.C.Y.S., of Market 

 Deeping, gives us the following case, which I 

 insert for the benefit of my readers. He says — 

 ^'A five-year old half-bred cob mare, the pro- 

 perty of Sisson Martin, Esq., of Helpstoneheath, 

 had heen put to light work in the field from 

 seven a.m. to three p.m. on the 15th of May ; a 

 quantity of lawn-mowings and hedge-side clipp- 

 ings were placed in the manger, of which she ate 

 greedily, also a quartern of oats and beans and 

 some chaff; the usual cjuantity of water was 

 given, and in about half-an-hour after she was 

 placed in the stall she showed symptoms of ab- 

 dominal pains, getting up and lying down and 

 rolling violently. The usual colic drink was 

 given, which temporarily relieved her. Two 

 hours after she began to retch, and, as they 

 thought, vomit; in consequence, I saw her at 

 eleven p.m., and no particularly decided symp- 

 toms were manifested; the pulse was 48 and 

 soft, there was slight tympanitis, the breathing 

 was slightly accelerated, and the temperature 

 was normal. At intervals it was seized with a 

 peculiar spasmodic action of the throat, as of diffi- 

 culty of swallowing, the eructations occurring at 

 intervals of fifteen minutes, and continuing a few 

 minutes, increasing in severity each time, until 

 the third occurrence, when a quantity — probably 



