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A MARE WITH ONLY ONE KIDNEY. 
At night there was little or no fever — the horse had recovered 
his natural spirits — he searched about for something to eat, and 
whinnied when any food was given to his neighbours. 
30/A. — The wound of the maxillary bone presents a healthy 
aspect, and the horse is in a very satisfactory state. I offered him 
a handful of oats, and he ate them with so much appetite and ease, 
that no one, looking at him, Avould think that he had been deprived 
of his lower incisor teeth. 
31s*. — Seeing that he had disposed of the oats on the preceding 
day so well, I offered a quarter of a ration of oats and hay, which 
he ate without the slightest difficulty. At the expiration of two 
days he was fed like the other horses, and this continued until the 
9th of November, when he quitted the hospital nearly cured. The 
surface of the bone was covered with vermeil-coloured little eleva- 
tions, and the membrane was fast surrounding the circumference 
of the stump. 
This case appeared to me to be worthy of record for a double 
reason — on account of its rarity, for I believe that it is the only one 
on record ; and in a physiological relation, because it shews expe- 
rimentally the part — so important — which, in the act of prehension, 
the lips and the tongue of the domesticated horse play. I have 
said the domesticated horse ; for in a state of nature, when the horse 
is compelled to exercise a certain degree of action in the procuring 
of his food, the loss of the incisor teeth would be fatal to him : but 
in a state of domesticity, when the aliment is presented already 
separated from its attachments, the bps and the tongue are suffi- 
cient to accomplish the act of prehension, without any aid from the 
incisor teeth. The loss of the anterior part of the inferior maxil- 
lary is a much less serious one than that of the whole of the free 
portion of the tongue. A horse in our hospital that had lost this 
portion of his tongue, experienced very great difficulty both in 
seizing and swallowing his food, and especially his drink ; while 
the horse whose case I have been relating could execute these 
acts as perfectly as if his lower jaw had never been injured. 
Recueil de Med. Vet ., Nov. 1838. 
A MARE WITH ONLY ONE KIDNEY. 
By MM. Dupuy and Prince. 
A MARE belonging to the artillery was destroyed at the vete- 
rinary school at Toulouse on the 28th of October, 1830, on ac- 
count of being glandered. 
Nothing unusual presented itself on dissection, except that she 
