332 ON THE SENSIBLE PHENOMENA OF RUMINATION. 
be kept at a certain heat, neither too hot nor too cold. Chel¬ 
tenham, that warm languor-creating place in the summer months, 
was a great change, at all events, from the cold hill country of 
Kemble. There was no appearance of cough or any thing else 
until it began to do its duty. One did not wonder at the 
stiffness about the chest, when he heard of the adhesion of the 
lungs to the chest. This horse was subjected to a very ex¬ 
citing duty, to serve mares, some of which had been served 
before, which would tend to produce inflammation of the lungs. 
It seemed to him, a certain strong horse carried away from a 
position where he had been kept low, doing little work, and 
placed in a position the very opposite to it. It must have had a 
powerful effect upon the body of the horse, and he was inclined 
to think that consumption came on at a rapid speed ; that the 
horse, in fact, died in a galloping consumption. In preferring 
the evidence of Mr. Brown, he did not wish to detract from 
that of Mr. Hooper. His Honour then gave judgment for 
the defendant. 
Wilts and Glo stershire Standard and Cirencester 
and Swindon Express, May 1, 1852. 
Foreign Department. 
ON THE SENSIBLE PHENOMENA OF RUMINATION. 
By M. Colin, as reported on by M. Prange. 
The following comprises the substance of the report of a 
paper on this subject, read before the National and Central 
Society of Veterinary Medicine of France :— 
Under the heading of “ Sensible Phenomena of Rumination,” 
M. Colin includes “ all the external and appreciable acts of this 
function, every thing, in fact, one can make out of acts in a 
great measure concealed, having for their object the return of 
the aliment from the stomach into the mouth, and its remodifi¬ 
cation within the latter cavity.” 
These acts are— 
1st, The return or rejection of the alimentary cud. 
2dly, The mastication of the cud, wherein are to be ob¬ 
served—the direction of the motions of the lower jaw, the 
rapidity or tardiness of their succession, their number and 
regularity. 
