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she was considered to be moribund, and, to all appearances, was 
declining fast. 
Happening to call at this moment, I suggested the experiment 
of giving her a little of the ergot, and accordingly two drachms 
of the tincture were administered to her. In less than twenty 
minutes afterwards she produced a dead pup, in a state of de- 
composition; and in the course of the evening, another in the 
same state, since which time she has been perfectly easy, and has 
now quite recovered her strength. 
It would, perhaps, be as well to add that, on all previous occa- 
sions, she had pupped remarkably well, and without any diffi- 
culty, but that, since her last litter, she had become remarkably 
and extraordinarily fat, to which circumstance the difficulty on 
the present occasion might in some measure be attributed. 
Foredate Street, Chester, 
'May 14, 1842. 
THE SINGULAR EFFECT OF WORMS IN THE 
STOMACH OF A MARE. 
By Mr. J. D. Harrison, V.S. 
I yesterday attended the following case; and as the post- 
mortem appearances were very unusual, and, to me, unique, a 
relation of it may prove interesting, and of some utility. 
The subject was an aged cart mare, and during the whole time 
(eighteen months) that she was in her owner’s possession had 
never been a good feeder, and consequently had a lean appear- 
ance. About ten or twelve days ago her appetite became worse, 
and, in the beginning of last week, entirely failed ; upon which 
she had a dose of physic administered last Thursday evening. 
On Friday it operated. On Saturday morning, the 23d of May, 
I was called in to see her, she having suffered, apparently from 
gripes, two or three hours previously to my seeing her. I could 
not, however, detect the slightest symptom of pain, and found 
nothing different about the mare than what is generally expe- 
rienced after a dose of physic has so recently been given. 
Yesterday morning she was again found to be suffering violent 
pain, and, when I saw her, I immediately concluded that it was a 
case of muco-enteritis. An anodyne draught was then adminis- 
tered, and some blood abstracted from the jugular vein. 
During the time her neck was pinning up, I, for the first time. 
