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ON BREEDING BULLS. 
follicles, thereby rendering it more easily lacerable than the other 
parts of this organ. 
With respect to those lesions of the stomach that have been 
observed in some instances when making post-mortem examina- 
tions, and which have been described by their discoverers as being 
examples of the recovery of ruptured stomachs, I would here take 
the opportunity of remarking, that the opinions of those indivi- 
duals, or rather their conclusions, were erroneous, since the cica- 
trices which they observed were those consequent upon partial 
lacerations of the peritoneum and sub-peritoneal tissue, which, in 
all probability, took place in the same manner as the greater part 
of the laceration in the case above recorded. We know that the 
peritoneum is not capable of very great distention, and that, 
therefore, it is liable to laceration ; while the other coats of the 
stomach, being more elastic, will bear greater distention. Again, 
let us recollect that, after the peritoneal laceration, it is possible 
for the distention to suffer reduction, either from natural or arti- 
ficial causes (such as the administration of medicinal agents), 
before the rupture has taken place in the remaining coats ; and 
that, as a natural consequence, the lacerated peritoneum obeys the 
restorative laws of nature, and a cicatrice is formed, which leads 
the unreflecting to the erroneous conclusion to which I have just 
alluded. 
Paris , Oct. 12, 1843. 
Note. It is necessary to bear in mind, that my remarks relative 
to intestinal obstruction refer particularly to those situated ante- 
riorly to the ilio-colic valve, and not to those existing more poste- 
riorly, since, in the latter case, the symptoms and consequences 
are materially different. 
ON BREEDING BULLS. 
By Jos. Goodwin, Esq., M.R.C.S . , late Veterinary Surgeon 
to the King. 
In the remarks of all the celebrated and distinguished breeders, 
I have never observed that among the various and particular points 
and properties, such as pure blood, pedigree, beauty in form and 
proportion of parts, aptitude to fatten, &c. & c., that tranquil 
temper and disposition was a necessary qualification, to be com- 
bined with all the long train of fashionable properties, in order to 
