CASE OF VOMITING IN A MARE. 
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brethren. The field is open to us all. We entreat the communi- 
cation of the experience of our brethren, and shall anxiouly await 
the arrival of another communication from Mr. Snewing on the 
effect of -the nux vomica in vertigo. — Y.] 
CASE OF VOMITING IN A MARE. 
By J. Tombs, Esq., V.S., Pershore. 
October 15, 1838.-— A BAY mare belonging to a medical gen- 
tleman of this town, when on a journey, suddenly cringed herself 
up, and vomited a gallon of indigested food and saliva. She vomited 
three or four times in the course of her journey. Soon after she 
came home I saw her. She was tucked up — her coat stood on 
end ; the pulse was 50, and weak ; an astonishing quantity of 
saliva continually dropped from her mouth, and there was disin- 
clination to feed. Give aperients. 
16M.— Still a copious flow of saliva from the mouth. She re- 
fuses food and water, and has been slightly sick since yesterday. 
On examining the mouth I discovered an oat imbedded in the 
lining membrane of the upper lip. I removed it, and had a solution 
of alumina applied to the orifice. The secretion of saliva gra- 
dually lessened, and in a week she was quite well. 
Farmers’ horses when eating barley-chaff frequently slaver, and 
have a foetid discharge from the mouth, in consequence of the chaff 
getting under the root of the tongue, and forming ulcers. The 
removal of these foreign substances and an astringent lotion soon 
effects a cure. 
In your answer to Correspondents, will you kindly inform me if 
veterinary surgeons are liable to fill any petty parochial offices — 
such as constable, overseer, collector of taxes — if appointed to the 
same I — or whether they are liable to be subpoenaed as jurymen at 
assizes or quarter sessions 1 
[They are so, although they plainly ought to be placed on the same 
footing as the medical man. Their patients are not so valuable, 
but they are engaged, like the medical man, in the relief of pain 
and the prolongation of life. 
A petition numerously signed, and presented to the House of 
Commons, might, probably, cause us to be relieved from this 
hardship. The Editor of this Journal is at the service of his 
brethren. — Y.] 
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