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BiiOKKN WIND. 
The applicability of the term “contre-temps,” — misadventure, 
awkwardness — I hardly understand ; except one action of the 
respiratory muscles being insufficient to perfect the act of expi- 
ration, it was necessary that another should immediately follow 
it. My friend, the “ Dictionnaire des Termes,” does me some 
service as to the “ soubresaut.” I turn to that word, and I find 
“ a sort of palpitation which manifests itself in the epigastrium,” 
as indefinite a definition as that of M. Renault, or his friend ; 
but I then go to “ pousse,” and there I read “ a malady of the 
horse recognized by the inspiration which is accomplished after 
two efforts.” Here I am quite at sea. I had always supposed 
that, in a broken-winded horse, the inspiration was performed 
at or by one effort, but that it required a second effort of the 
same muscles, or other muscles were summoned to the aid of the 
usual ones, in order to accomplish the expiration. Such, at 
least, is the doctrine taught in your Journal, on whose valuable 
pages I am now obtruding my nonsense, and the doctrine to 
which I heartily subscribe. 
The mischief, however, does not rest with M. Lebert, but 
with the printer of the Dictionnaire, who has substituted in for 
ex. Therefore with a protest, not urged very strenuously, that 
the mare could not be “ in a state of perfect health/’ while 
this double action — this soubresaut — clearly indicated disturbed 
function, 1 pass on. 
“ I, the undersigned Louis Hippolyte Baquet, & c. &c. of Bourg- 
Achard, have examined this mare with much attention, while 
she was undisturbed, after she had been exercised, and while 
she was eating her com ; and she appeared to be in good 
health, except that in breathing she had that irregular move- 
ment of the flank cut short by the soubresaut, w hich consti- 
tutes broken-wind. 
“ Rouen, 2 6th Mai/, 1835.” 
I have not a word to say against this certificate. It is an 
honest, straightforward account, and does M. Baquet credit. 
“ Bosquet, V. S., Rue Cadet, Paris, &c. &c. I have ex- 
amined this mare with attention, during repose and after exer- 
cise ; and I found that the motion of the flank was irregular, 
and interrupted by the contre-temps , which constitutes broken- 
wind. 
“Paris, 3 July, 1835.” 
“ I, the undersigned Eloi Barthelemy, Ex-professor of the 
School of Aifort, Veterinary Surgeon at Paris, and residing 
in St. George’s Street, No. 21, do certify that this day, 
the 4th of July 1835, at seven o’clock in the morning, I have 
