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quick, and the beatings of the heart strong. This state of 
excitement would last for about live minutes, to reappear 
whenever the same cause was renewed. 
The next day the contractions were much increased, par¬ 
ticularly of the muscles of the body; the tail was stiff and 
elevated ; any movement was impossible, but the respiration 
and the circulation were the same. In the evening of the 
same day she fell down like an inert mass ; the limbs and 
neck were extended; the respiration was diaphragmatic and 
laborious; the pulse could no longer be felt; the extremities 
became cold, and death speedily followed. 
The treatment consisted principally of fumigation with 
belladonna and injections of the same, with warm clothing, 
but it proved of no avail. 
Autopsy .—The muscles were of an intense red colour, and 
the cohesion of their fibres seemed to be lessened. The pia 
mater and the choroid plexus were highly injected, the sub¬ 
stance of the brain was of a brownish colour; it also appeared 
of a less consistence than natural. These were the only 
lesions found in this case. 
REMARKABLE CASE OE SUPERECETATION IN A MARE. 
Communicated by P. Chabaud, Doctor of Medicine. 
In the commune of Vernioile (Ariege) Jean Rouge put a 
mare that was horsing to an ass, which covered her. As the 
oestrum continued on her, she was covered by a stallion 
fifteen days after this. Nothing unusual occurred during the 
time of gestation, and when her time had expired she had a 
fine healthy foal; but in spite of this the pains continued, 
and, to the astonishment of Rouge, in ten minutes after a 
mule was born also, which was healthy and of good confor¬ 
mation. The mare suckles the two, and they are doing well. 
Evidently these two cannot be considered as twins, for here 
is the existence of two males of different species. 
ABSCESS IN THE ABDOMINAL CAVITY, WITH HYPERTROPHY 
OE THE LEET KIDNEY, OE A HORSE. 
By M. Reeoul, Vetcrinaire a Coursan (Aude). 
The subject of this case was a nine-year-old horse, which 
had always presented some peculiarities. As a foal, he did 
