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ON MARES HAVING TWIN FOALS. 
brought to my recollection an accident which happened to a horse 
of Mr. George Ellmore’s, which I have extracted from my me¬ 
moranda. 
Now six years past, Dec. 1, a horse belonging to Mr. George 
Ellmore was sent into my stables with a very small punctured 
wound on the head, apparently caused by a nail or a sharp-point¬ 
ed prong of a fork, through the lower edge of the right temporal 
muscle, and which, on examination with a small surgeon’s probe, 
proved to pass through the parietal bone, just above the coronary 
suture. It had the appearance of having happened not very re¬ 
cently. I made an extensive crucial incision through the scalp 
quite down to the bone directly over the puncture, and applied 
blisters to the surrounding part; gave physic, and bled. 
2d .—Repeated the bleeding, and an aperient ball. 
3d .—Bleeding and ball repeated ; in the evening the bowels 
freely acted on. 
4 th .— External wound suppurating kindly, and all the func¬ 
tions going on regularly : repeated the blisters. At night a de¬ 
gree of stupor was observed; repeat bleeding. 
5 th. —Delirious, and requiring much restraint. 
Gth .—In the morning applied a trephine, making the original 
puncture the centre, and expecting, on the removal of the bone 
and division of the membranes, a flow of some fluid. Nothing 
followed : I then extended the opening through the membranes 
to the full extent of the opening in the skull, and, looking into the 
head, was surprised to find almost a complete cavity. Nearly 
two-thirds of the cerebrum on that side was gone, and what re¬ 
mained at the back part of the skull was covered with a dry 
black coating, presenting an appearance much like the pigmen- 
tum nigrum when the humours of the eye have been evacuated. 
The horse died that night, and, thinking at the time it was a case 
not likely to occur again, I made no further inquiry, which I now 
much regret. 
ON MARES HAVING TWIN FOALS. 
By T. Millington, Esq., Great Titchfield-street , London . 
In that part of Mr. Karkeek’s excellent paper “ on Breeding,” 
in The Veterinarian for July, I observe that he alludes 
to the very unfrequent circumstance of a mare producing twin 
colts, together with the belief that both are never brought forth 
alive. I beg to state that I have known more than one instance 
in which they have been foaled living : the most recent is that of 
a mare in Oxfordshire. I saw her in the last summer with twin colts 
