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PUERPERAL FEVER IN A MARE. 
phates. We never found any alkaline carbonates or phosphates. 
The alkali consisted chiefly of soda. The calx still contained a 
little carbonate and phosphate of lime, and also some sulphate of 
lime and chloruret of calcium. 
2. In the horse : — -The soluble part of the calx consisted of a great 
quantity of chlorine, and a small one of an alkaline sulphate. The 
alkali was soda with a little potash. We also found in the horse 
a considerable quantity of chloruret of calcium and magnesium. 
The insoluble portion of the calx contained carbonate and phosphate 
of lime, with a little magnesium, oxide of iron, and even, as it 
seemed to us, oxide of manganese. 
The gastric juice of one horse contained, in addition to the usual 
ingredients, a little resin and fatty matter, and carbonate of ammonia. 
A CASE OF PUERPERAL FEVER IN A MARE. 
By Veterinarius. 
[This gentleman has favoured us with his address, or most assur- 
edly his case, valuable as it is, should not have appeared. — -Y.] 
“ The tale that I unfold to-day 
No fiction is, but from the records pure 
Of truth has been obtained.” 
Mr. King, of Stanmore, in The V ETERINARIAN for January, 
says, speaking of the cow, “ I believe that no other animal is sub- 
ject to this specific disorder” — puerperal fever. I will not affirm 
that the case which I am about to relate was absolutely one of puer- 
peral fever ; but it approaches so nearly to it, that I venture to give 
it that name, and must confess that it stands alone in the little com- 
pass of my experience. 
On the 24th of December 1837, I was applied to respecting a 
mare, eight years old, that had aborted early in the morning, but 
had not cast her cleansing. I was not required to see her, but 
merely to send her some medicine. I was, however, told that she 
was straining very much. I gave the messenger the following 
drink, to be administered in warm gruel — secal. cornut, sem. anisi, 
sem. carui ^ij, et magnes. sulph. |vj. 
In the evening the messenger called again to tell me that, shortly 
after the administration of the drink, the mare produced another 
foal — that the cleansing quickly followed, and that she was doing 
well. 
On the next morning the owner found her off her feed, and heav- 
ing violently at the flanks. My attendance was now requested. 
