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SUPPOSED INSTANCE OF SECOND IMPREG¬ 
NATION IN A MARE. 
By G. Evans, M.R.C.V.S., Bridgnorth. 
About the end of April, or beginning of May, 1857, a 
mare belonging to Mr. Lane, of Farlow, was covered by a 
horse. She took him again twice , about six weeks in¬ 
tervening between each time, and was therefore expected to 
foal in July, 1858. 
On the 22d of April, 1858, she was taken suddenly ill, 
and I was sent for to examine her. When I arrived, I found 
that she had been delivered of tw r o foals; one was alive, and 
full grown, evidently the result of the first copulation ; the 
other had just died, perhaps while being born. It, however, 
was so young, that I have no doubt of its being the result of 
the third copulation. 
I offer no comment on this. 
SUDDEN FRACTURE OF THE HUMERUS OF A 
HORSE. 
By W. Field, Jun., M.R.C.Y.S., London. 
The following case being a rather unusual one, I think it 
may interest some of your readers, and therefore forward it 
for insertion in the next number of your Journal. 
The subject was a good-looking, thorough-bred, bay 
gelding, upwards of sixteen hands high, and about ten 
years old. 
He had carried me through a run of about twelve miles 
with her Majesty’s staghounds; after which I fed him, and 
then started on my way home, a distance of about ten 
miles. 
The horse trotted along the road until within about half a 
mile of his destination, when he blundered forward, but did 
not fall. I slipped off his back, and found the humerus of 
the off fore-leg fractured. With great difficulty he was got 
to his stable, where he was destroyed. 
The question is—How did the accident happen? The 
road was perfectly smooth; no ruts or loose stones existed. 
