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no mean authority among us, is reported to have said— 
though we cannot find, from the reference given, in what 
place —that he “ never saw a horse fairly vomit the contents of 
his stomach.” 
Case v, in vol. xvn of “ The Veterinarian,” “a 
case of vomiting in the horse, caused by invagination of the 
small intestine,”—is reported from the Compte-Rendu of the 
Veterinary School at Lyons for the Session 1841-2. 
Case vi, vol. xxii, (1849 5 ) contains a case of “ Bron¬ 
chitis,” occurring to Mr. Hooper, of Cheltenham, in which 
vomiting supervened during convalescence. After the mare’s 
return home from Mr. Hooper’s infirmary, he was suddenly 
recalled to her on account of her being “ as sick as a dog.” 
She vomited several times in Mr. Hooper’s presence. “ She 
ejected masses,” consisting of green-meat mixed with a great 
quantity of mucus,” which “ passed entirely through the 
oral opening, and not through the nasal, as is usual.” Mr. 
Hooper ascribed the vomiting to the administration of tartar 
emetic. A draught containing hydrocyanic acid allayed the 
vomiting. 
Case vii, the last recorded instance of vomiting coming 
within our knowledge, is that related by M. Sanson in the last 
number of “The Veterinarian,” any abstract from which, 
it being so recent in our memory, becomes unnecessary. 
Few and far between, as the foregoing cases are, while 
they furnish of themselves but scanty grounds for an answer 
to the question, “ why the horse rarely vomits,” they serve to 
show that the question could hardly, with propriety, be 
couched in any other form; since, it cannot be asserted, that the 
horse, by nature , does vomit, no more than it can be contended 
that he does not vomit : neither do the instances of vomiting 
we hear from time to time from the mouths of practitioners— 
although almost every veterinary surgeon, of any standing in 
practice, seems to have one or more to narrate,—invalidate 
this form of impression. The horse’s stomach, with its ap¬ 
purtenances and dependencies, was evidently never con¬ 
structed for the action of emesis; whenever compelled to 
undergo such, the act is manifestly one contra naturam. 
