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INJURY OF THE VAGINA AND RECTUM OF 
A MARE. 
By the Same. 
Ox the 18th of September last I was requested to attend a 
bay mare (in foal), belonging to Mr. Brooks, of Shenninton. 
She w r as quite well the previous evening, when turned out to 
grass, but on the w agoner going to his horses on the fol¬ 
lowing morning, he observed that the mare had bled a great 
deal, and was lying down. The blood was coagulated. When I 
saw her she was uneasy, pawing, and looking backwards 
towards her flank. Pulse very quick and soft. No appetite. 
Upon examination per vaginam , I found that the passage 
was injured in two places, just above the neck of the bladder 
and contiguous to the rectum, from which the blood had 
escaped. Sometimes an intermission in the severity of the 
symptoms took place, which continued for a few^ hours at a 
time. The haemorrhage had ceased entirely on the second 
day after the injury. 
On the 29th the mare aborted an apparently healthy foetus, 
and I was in great hopes she would have been relieved, but 
about the 4th of October the pulse increased in frequency, 
and the respiration became very laboured. She died on the 
10th of October. 
Post-mortem examination .—The vagina and rectum were 
thickened, and the latter was found to be adhering to the 
sacrum. Both the anus and the interior of rectum were 
diseased. Effusion had also taken place into the cellular tissue 
connecting the viscera of the pelvic cavity. The anus, 
several days before the mare died, had lost its contractile 
power, and was so open as to expose the inside of the in¬ 
testine. The rectum likewise did not act towards the last, 
and consequently the faeces accumulated, and were only ex¬ 
pelled by violent contractions of the abdominal muscles. 
The parts were evidently wounded by some means, but how 
is quite a mystery. 
RUPTURE OF THE (ESOPHAGUS. 
By the Same. 
On the 29th September, 1859,1 was called to attend a brown 
horse, four years old, belonging to a farmer, which had been 
