28 CASE OF UNUSUAL PARTURITION IN A MARE. 
tions would be more laudable, were he to direct the force of his 
artillery against the offending parts, viz., the paunch and mani¬ 
folds?” proceeding also, as Mr. H. does, to shew me how this 
may be done by the use of stimulants. Would not any one sup¬ 
pose, from this question and the advice following it, that the use 
of stimulants for this purpose had never entered into my practice ; 
or that, at any rate, 1 had never urged the necessity of their ap¬ 
plication ? Why, gentlemen, in the very paper he is comment¬ 
ing upon, besides strenuously recommending them more than 
once in the course of it, I positively closed my remarks by press¬ 
ing the use of them for the same purpose; a circumstance which, 
I apprehend, Mr. H. must have entirely overlooked when he 
penned the question. 
I am fearful this controversy may not interest your general 
readers, and I assure you it should have ended with Mr. H.’s 
rejoinder, had he not implicated me in opinions which I conceive 
to be highly erroneous, and tending to induce a practice at once 
improper and inefficient. 
Mr. H. appears to fear that my hobby may break down with 
hard riding; but so far am I from being afraid of this, that, 
“entre nous,” I really believe he would carry double; and if 
Mr. ? H. would condescend to mount also, I should feel great plea¬ 
sure in letting him ride first. 
Seriously, gentlemen, there is an honest avowal of principle in 
Mr. Harrison that I very much admire; and if, in the course of 
these remarks, you find any thing in the least discourteous to 
him, as a highly respectable and intelligent practitioner, expunge 
it without mercy. I have been delighted and instructed with a 
great deal of matter in his articles; and I hope he will give me 
credit for acting from conviction in those points wherein we 
differ. 
Does Mr. Friend think that we would alter, or that Mr. Har¬ 
rison would wish one syllable of this to be altered ? Such is the 
way in which our controversies should be carried on, and then, 
indeed, we should rapidly progress in veterinary science, and in 
public estimation too.— Edit. 
A CASE OF UNUSUAL PARTURITION IN A MARE. 
By Mr. John Hawthorn, V.S., Kettering. 
On the morning of March 26th last, I was sent for to see a 
mare of Mr. Ward’s, of Wickley-Mill, which, the man said. 
