348 NUMBER OF HORSES IN FRANCE. 
be given to her, and that she should then be left undisturbed. 
She lay four or five hours before she attempted to rise. Emol¬ 
lient injections were then thrown into the vagina, a bran poultice 
was applied to the loins, and mashes were given to her. 
During the next eight days, she continued to be exceedingly 
weak: she would not eat; and she was subject to frequent 
colicky pains. On the twelfth day her appetite began to ieturn; 
she then speedily recovered her strength, and is now in perfect 
health. 
More recently I have employed the same instrument in operat¬ 
ing-on a cow, the neck of whose uterus was so constricted that 
the finger could scarcely be introduced. I divided the stricture, 
and saved both the cow and the calf. 
Recueil de Med . Vel . 
The Exportation and Importation of Horses in France 
in the Year 1830. 
IMPORTATION FROM 
EXPORTATION TO 
England . 
. 522 
. 407 
The Low r Countries . 
. 9211 
. 324 
Prussia . ... . •. 
. 670 
....... . 
. 26 
Germany. 
. 3394 
. 85 
Sw itzerland .... 
. 3927 
.. 
. 364 
Sardinia ..... 
. 142 
. 924 
Tuscany . 
1 
i # 
11 
Spain . 
. 47 
. 769 
Austria . 
2 
The English Islands . 
8 
Egypt ... . . • 
5 
The Mauritius . . . 
6 
The Barbary States . 
5 
The Isle of Bourbon . 
IT 
Martinique .... 
7 
. « 
Guadaloupe . . . 
• 19 
Total . . . 
17,923 
2,967 
/ * 
In 1829 the Importations 
were ' . 
16,075, 
and the Exportations . 
4409, 
leaving an average annual deficiency in the breed of horses in 
France of 13,312, to be supplied by importation ; to which must 
be added 20,000 more, purchased by the French government in 
the present year. 
Recueil de Med, Vet . 
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