486 INDIGESTION WITH VOMITING IN A MARE. 
bus proprietors will swear any thing.” We will content ourselves, 
however, with asking, Was there ever so lame and impotent a con- 
clusion, as that a horse could not have broken his knee against a 
certain railing, because that railing was only sixteen inches high , 
and had not been knocked down 1 
A CASE OF INDIGESTION WITH VOMITING IN A 
MARE. 
By Professor Gelle, of Toulouse. 
On January the 20th, 1812, a mare, attached to a cart, in the 
road to Parthenay, where I then lived, was taken ill, apparently 
with colic. She soon began to discharge through the nostrils a 
great quantity of glairy matter, of a sour smell, and mingled with 
portions of food. Having yet a mile to go, it was with great diffi- 
culty that he could get her along, and, as soon as he had arrived 
at Parthenay, he sought me out. 
I found her covered with sweat, in great agitation, rolling her- 
self continually, and her belly distended. She then, all at once, 
raised herself on her haunches, the abdominal muscles were vio- 
lently contracted, her head and neck were extended horizontally, 
and she vomited through her nostrils a great quantity of mucous 
fluid, mixed with portions of food, and exhaling an acid smell. I 
proceeded to examine her. The pulse was small and concentrated, 
and the extremities cold. The carrier assured me that she had 
neither urined or dunged since the halt at dinner-time. She re- 
fused some gruel which I offered her. I told the waggoner that I 
had no hope of saving her; but, at his request, I undertook the 
case. I obtained the following information from the driver, which 
sufficiently clearly pointed out to me the course I was to pursue. 
He was a spice-merchant, and was accustomed to go to Saumur, 
Nantes, and Noirt, in quest of goods. His mare was well-fed 
and taken care of. He had come through Niort and St. Maixent, 
which were then crowded with cavalry, and forage for his mare 
was procured with difficulty, and, consequently, it was bad, and 
particularly at the inns. The mare had eaten little of it, but, 
on arriving, on the 20th, at Resanne, where he stopped to dine, 
finding some excellent hay, she had eaten to excess. She was 
always a voracious feeder. She started off again as soon as she 
had finished her feed. She was a free goer, and the carriage was 
heavily laden, and hence the indigestion and its consequences. 
I hastened to mix an ounce of sulphuric ether with a pint and 
a half of warm honied water, and administered it to her very care- 
fully. I followed this with two enemas of bran water, to which I 
