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A CASE OF VOMITION IN A COW. 
By Mr. C.'S. Green, V.S., Fareham. 
In the autumn of 1839, I was desired to attend a cow that had 
a large abscess between the branches of the lower jaw, accompa¬ 
nied with vomiting, and an increased discharge of saliva from the 
mouth, with loss of appetite. She had been labouring under this 
disease for six months, and was reduced almost to a skeleton. 
Her vomiting, if so it might be called, was of a singular cha¬ 
racter. She ejected sometimes half a pint, at other times more 
than a pint, of a glairy fluid as transparent as water. This hap¬ 
pened several times during the day. I applied a blister to the 
throat, and the swelling was very much reduced; but as the animal 
was evidently becoming weaker every day, and was in the lowest 
possible state of condition, I proposed to the owner to have her de¬ 
stroyed, which was consented to. 
Inspectio Cadaveris .—On examining the under surface of the 
tongue there was an abnormal appearance of a cartilaginous nature, 
in the centre of which was a cavity containing some thick glairy 
matter: in the second stomach or reticulum there were some small 
portions of lead, which were found to be shots, there being nineteen 
in number, sixteen of them in a perfect state; the other three, being 
compressed nearly flat, were found to be corroded. 
THE HISTORY OF THE HORSE—THE VARIOUS 
BREEDS—AND THE SUPPOSED HEREDITARY 
PREDISPOSITION. 
By Mr. G. Baker, Reigate. 
The value of the horse has been acknowledged from the re¬ 
motest antiquity; and in tracing his history and utility, I am in¬ 
duced to refer to the inspired volume, because it is the oldest 
record extant. The sublime description of the horse in the 39th 
chapter of the book of Job must be known to every reader; and 
the writer of that book is supposed to have been coeval with 
Moses, and consequently many centuries prior to Homer, who was 
contemporary with Elijah. 
The proximity of the land of Uz to Arabia may have suggested 
the description; and the Arabians so passionately admire this noble 
animal, that they have exhausted all the wealth of their fine 
