A MARE WITH ONLY ONE KIDNEY, &C. 577 
for it, never having seen any analogous fact. This evacuation 
of excrementitial matter probably prolonged the life of the 
horse, since it gave free issue to that which was effused into the 
abdomen by means of the rent in the colon ; and the owner told 
us that the horse was almost incessantly staling, and discharging 
this semi-fluid fecal production. 
This fact of the rendering of excrement through the ure¬ 
thral canal, is pefectly new to us, and seems to be deserving 
of record. 
Journal, May 1835. 
A MARE WITH ONLY ONE KIDNEY. 
By MM. D UPUY and Prince. 
A GLANDERED mare was brought to the Veterinary School 
to be slaughtered on the 28th of October 1830. 
She presented an anomaly worthy of record. She had only 
one kidney: it was at the entrance of the pelvis and situated a 
little on the left. Its form was that of the right kidney, and it 
was as large as two ordinary kidneys. Its scissure was placed 
posteriorly, and gave passage to a large vein and a ureter. An¬ 
teriorly it received, at a point exactly opposite to the scissure, an 
arterial branch of the usual size of the emulgent artery, and 
W’hich came from the posterior aorta, between the pelvic and 
crural trunks. It was placed a little obliquely; its superior 
surface corresponded with part of the sacrum, and the last of 
the lumbar vertebrae. Its anterior border was on a level with 
the bifurcation of the aorta, and the right angle was placed a 
little more posteriorly than the left. The ureter terminated on 
the right side of the bladder, and presented nothing unusual in 
its structure, except that it was a little larger than the ureters 
generally are. The renal pelvis was larger than usual, as was 
also the infundibulum; but there was nothing peculiar in the 
texture of the kidney. One renal capsule was on the left side, 
and in its natural situation. 
Journal, 
THE DRUNKEN PIGS. 
An innkeeper at Marselle, in France, had occasion to empty 
two casks of wine. The servant gave the lees to two pigs, each 
of which had a bucketfull, containing at least two and a half 
