STOMACHIC ABSORPTION. 
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of it. * A female ass was seized with symptoms of horsing , 
evincing desire of copulation, along with tetanic phenomena, 
the development of which were likewise referred to the 
venereal orgasm, among which were remarkable tight closing 
of the jaws, grinning through the teeth, slowness and 
difficulty of mastication, and difficulty in deglutition. At 
first, no male was allowed her. Bloodlettings, nitre de- 
coctions with valerian in them, sharpened with sulphuric 
acid, assafcetida, clysters with the same acid diluted, 
frictions with camphorated volatile liniment upon the cheeks, 
neck, back, and loins, caused the disappearance of the nervous 
accompaniments; but, seeing that her horsing continued, 
she was given a stallion ass, by whom she held, became in 
foal, and from this time was cured. 5 55 
We have at this instant but a very small portion of our 
library at our elbow, or, we have a notion, we could lay our 
hands upon M. Guillaume’s cases. 
Foreign Department. 
STOMACHIC ABSORPTION. 
By M. Prange. 
[Paper read before the Imperial and Central Society of Veterinary 
Medicine.'] 
On the 14th of April last, I had the honour to submit to the 
Society a translation of the work of M. Perosino, Professor 
of the Veterinary School at Turin, on c Stomachic Absorption 
in the Horse. 5 I am about to read to you the Second Part of 
the work of the same author, in which we find the conclusions 
deducible from the entire work altogether. 
The rapidity with which substances introduced into the 
stomach are expelled out of the body along with the urine, 
had given rise in ancient times to the notion of the existence 
of a direct communication between the stomach and the 
bladder, or else between the stomach and the kidneys. 
We believe it will be necessary here to call to mind the 
researches and hypotheses entered into by different authors 
in anatomy and physiology, in order to arrive at some satis- 
