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was covered by its membranes, and appeared to be of about 
four months’ gestation. It turned out that the cow had had 
the bull, though in calf about that period, which goes far to 
prove that a second fecundation may take place, although the 
animal is not at heat, and even in an advanced state of gesta- 
tion. 
THE EMPLOYMENT OE ARSENIC IN BROKEN WIND. 
The next paper in this journal is on the use of arsenic 
in broken wind which has been found, however, to have 
no beneficial effect when the disease depends on struc- 
tural alteration. The dose is at first half a gramme ,* from 
which it is sometimes increased to a gram.me and a half. It 
is continued for several days, and not only with impunity, 
but with marked benefit to the respiration, which becomes 
regular, so that it cannot be perceived that the horse is suf- 
fering from broken wind. The dose, when carried to two 
grammes , produces all the symptoms of poisoning by arsenic ; 
but these, however, as a general rule, soon pass away, on the 
discontinuing the use of the drug. 
THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON 
INDIGESTION IN THE OX-TRIBE. 
(Osservazioni teorico-pratiche sull’ indigestione Rei Bovini.) 
Indigestion in the ox-tribe has been described, though 
very imperfectly, by those who have practised veterinary 
medicine from its earliest beginnings. Columella in his 
6 re rustica,’ has the following : 6i Cruditatis signa sunt 
crebri ructus , ac ventris sonitus , fastidia cibi , nervorum intensio, 
hehetes oculi , propter quaz bos neque ruminate neque lingua se 
deter git” This is not a bad description of simple indigestion, 
but he goes on to say, nam si neglecta cruditas est , et injlatio 
ventris , et intestinorum major dolor insequitur , qui nee capere cibos 
sinit , gemitus exprimit , locoque stare non patitur , scepe decumbere 
et agitare caput , caudamque crebrius agitare cogit. Vegetius in 
his 4 Artis Yet./ speaking of indigestion caused by feeding on 
barley, gives a less accurate description of the symptoms, in 
pletura ex hordeo his agnosciiur signis ; sudabit , ligati erunt armi , 
ambulabit incertum. Trutta, who lived many centuries after 
* A gramme consists of eighteen grains and a fraction. 
