BROKEN WIND. 
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proceeded to visit a mare, &c. in order to determine whether 
she is or not affected with broken-wind. Having examined 
this animal before she was disturbed, and immediately 
after she had been exercised, I have recognized that the move- 
ments are not regular; that they present the contre-temps 
or soubresaut, which is considered as the characteristic symp- 
tom of broken-wind ; and, therefore, I give it as my opinion 
that the said mare is actually broken-winded. 
“ Paris , 4th July, 1835.” 
“ I, the undersigned Pierre Nicolas Legrec, Veterinary Surgeon 
of Paris, No. 19, Hanover Street, do certify that a mare was 
shewn to me, &c. I have examined this mare with attention 
in a state of repose, immediately after exercise, and while she 
was eating her com ; and I have found that she appeared in 
good health, but that she had in respiration an irregular 
movement of the flank, and interrupted by contre-temps, or a 
kind of soubresaut, which constitutes broken-wind, an affec- 
tion acknowledged to render her unsound. 
“Paris, 5th July, 1835.” 
“ I, the undersigned Jaques Nicolas Barthelemy, Ex-professor 
of the Veterinary School of Alfort, Veterinary Surgeon of Paris, 
Lille Street, No. 39, Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, cer- 
tify that I have this day, July the 6th, 1835, visited a mare, 
&c. After having attentively examined the said mare in repose, 
immediately after exercise, and while she was eating her corn, 
I observed that she had those altered movements of the flanks, 
and the respiration interrupted by the kind of contre-coup 
which characterize broken-wind. On this account I believe 
and declare that the said mare is broken-winded. 
“Paris, Gth July, 1835.” 
I will have mercy upon you, and give you merely the pith of 
the six next certificates. 
Jean Claude Bourguard, 11, St. Nicolas D’Antin Street, ob- 
serves that “ the movements of the flanks were not regular, but 
presented the soubresaut which is considered to be the symptom 
of broken-wind, and believes her to be actually broken-winded.” 
Preau, the Assistant Veterinary Surgeon to the Prefecture of 
Police of the department of the Seine, “ recognizes in her the 
characteristic symptom of broken-wind.” 
Paul Jacques Chef, Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, for- 
merly belonging to the Horse Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard, 
now one of the veterinary surgeons attached to the Tribunal of 
Commerce of the department of the Seine, and residing at No. 
124, St. Lazarus Street, “ after a scrupulous examination of the 
