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several times, the mouth opened, the nostrils became dilated, 
and a quantity of whitish, slimy fluid was brought up, which 
was accompanied by a peculiar noise. The quantity thus 
brought up was not more than half a litre. It contained 
hardly any particles of food ; nevertheless the acid odour, and 
the violent efforts made, left no doubt as to the nature of the 
attack. After this the respiration as well as the circulation 
increased, although only for a short time. Three or four 
minutes after this the same phenomena followed in precisely 
the same order, and were each time accompanied by the 
expulsion of a greater or less quantity of the same slimy, semi¬ 
fluid substance. 
The author, in this case, as in the former, wished to assure 
himself of the reality of the vomiting; he therefore ordered 
the patient some wet bran, and after that some bread, but he 
obstinately refused to partake of either, for, although he took 
several pieces of the bread into his mouth, he neither mas¬ 
ticated nor swallowed them. 
Treatment .—Bleeding was prescribed; but as the owner 
was a dealer, and wished to sell his horse as soon as he could, 
this was not carried out; but dry frictions were made over 
the whole of the body, and some sedative drinks admi¬ 
nistered. Half an hour after, the vomiting had become less 
frequent, and in an hour it had ceased altogether. 
The same evening the horse began to feed, and the next 
morning all signs of vomiting had disappeared. 
ON THE SHEDDING OE THE MOLAR TEETH IN THE HORSE. 
By M. Delplaxqtje, Veterinaire a Douai. 
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<f Was Ruini right when he announced, in 1598, that of the 
six premolares, two only were shed on each side ?” And “ Was 
not Tenon wrong, when he advanced, in 1797, that the three 
were susceptible of being shed and replaced This was 
the question which was put in the last number of the Recueil 
Veterinaire. M. Genee, Veterinaire a Dole, does not hesi¬ 
tate in solving it in the favour of Ruini, by affirming that 
the horse has eight shedding premolares, four on each side 
of the mouth ; that this transformation of the teeth takes 
place in the winter, before the horse attains his third year, 
and that at that time great care must be taken of the animal 
in a hygienic point of view. 
With this M. Delplanque, of course, does not agree, as 
