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CASES OF ABORTION AND LAMINITIS, AND FEVER. 
By J. W. Gloag, M.R.C.V.S., 11th Hussars. 
To the Editor of u The Veterinarian 
Sir, — I f you deem the following cases from practice worth 
insertion in TheVeterinarian, they are much at your service. 
I am, Sir, &c. 
Norwich, 18th December, 1850. 
Abortion followed by Laminitis. 
A BROWN troop mare, four years old, was purchased at the 
fair of Beverley, November 5th. From her appearance, I was 
induced to believe her in foal ; but on the positive assurance of 
her owner to the contrary, and on his signing a document that 
he would have her back and pay all expenses if she were found 
to be so, she was taken The batch of young horses to which 
this mare belonged joined on the 13th November, and about 
one week after I endeavoured to ascertain by examination per 
rectum whether she were in foal, but failed to detect it, 
although I was still convinced my first impression was correct. 
I may also state that, in another case of examination of a mare 
per rectum, last year, for the same purpose, in the early period 
of gestation, I was unable to satisfy myself of the existence of 
the fact, although in the later periods the foetus is at once felt 
by this method. I mention this merely to shew that we are 
not to place implicit reliance on this mode of examination at all 
periods of gestation, but that we may be deceived. 
December ‘Id . — The mare was seized with pain, supposed to 
proceed from colic, and the farrier gave some warm injections 
and simple remedies before I could be found. By the time I 
arrived the mare was in the pains of labour, and in about one 
hour and a half, after suffering very much, she aborted a foetus 
with which she had apparently been gone about three months. 
The mare, the day previous, from some accidental cause, had 
been much relaxed in her bowels, and I expect that this may in 
some measure account for the casting of the foetus. She went on 
remarkably well after foaling, and all pain soon subsided ; she 
was supplied with gruel and bran mashes, with very little hay, 
and comfortably clothed and tended. Had it not been for her 
state of bowels, I probably might either have given some aperient 
or taken blood, but under the circumstances 1 did not think any 
treatment necessary. 
