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them, but of late years the strict preservation of game has 
led to the discountenance of dogs in the beech preserves, and 
so we rear the foreign pheasant, but buy the foreign truffle 
in the latter case to the neglect of our native species. 
We now bring our remarks upon the edible species of 
fungi to a conclusion ; we have seen how much of human 
food this tribe of plants are capable of affording. It is just 
possible that the vast quantities of the different species we 
meet with in our woods and fields might even be utilised in 
feeding animals. Experiments with pigs might lead to useful 
results, but as it is at present fungi mostly subserve the pur- 
pose of harbouring and nourishing hosts of flies and other 
insects. 
CASE OF EXTRUSION OF THE BLADDER IN A 
MARE DURING PARTURITION. 
By Mark Tailbv, M.R.C.Y.S., Birmingham. 
On Tuesday, the 27th of April last, I was requested to 
attend a well-bred chestnut cart mare, aged six years, the 
property of Mr. Cooper, of Langley, near Birmingham. 
She had foaled unattended on the previous Sunday morn- 
ing, and when seen a large protrusion from the vulva was 
discovered. 
The report I received was that she had “put her womb 
down,” and had great difficulty in staling. 
Upon my arrival I found my patient in great pain, pulse 
85, hard, and regular, breathing very much accelerated, 
bowels constipated, tremors, especially in the hind quarters, 
great difficulty in moving from side to side, and occasionally 
lying down and getting up again. 
The protruded viscus, supposed to be the womb, I found 
to be the bladder, as evidenced by the trickling from the 
ureters, and by the fact that there was no obstruction to the 
passage of the hand into the uterus. 
The ashy-grey colour of the vesical mucous membrane 
indicated a gangrenous condition, which might be expected 
from so protracted a displacement (more than 48 hours). 
Owing to the all but hopeless difficulty of returning the 
bladder, and, supposing this difficulty surmounted, the pos- 
sibility of some acute or chronic ailment supervening, added 
to which nine drachms of aloes had been given to her before 
I saw her, I gave a very unfavorable prognosis. 
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