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when the butcher came to cut her up the attachments were 
so slight that some of the bones fell out as clean as if they 
had been boiled for hours. 
Remarks ,—There are some things connected with this case 
that are rather singular. 1st. On our last visit to the patient 
there were no indications of immediate death about her : appa¬ 
rently the disease of which she died could not then have 
made much progress. 2nd. The extreme rapidity with which 
the animal sank, for on the morning of the seventh (the day she 
died) she both ate and ruminated. 3rd. The singularity of 
the disease occurring after the prolapsus had taken place, for 
we should naturally think that diseased action would have 
been determined more particularly to the uterus. Perhaps 
you will oblige me by saying w^hether you consider the pro¬ 
lapsus of the uterus had anything to do with the animahs 
death from haematosepsis. 
[The changed condition of the blood in this case W'e con¬ 
sider to have depended on absorption of deleterious matter 
from the uterus—the lochia—which may be said to have 
acted as a ferment to the vital fluid, and quickly produced 
such an alteration of it as to render it unfitted for the main¬ 
tenance of life. Similar cases are not unfrequent.] 
SINGULAR CASE OF FRACTURE OF BOTH 
HUMERI. 
By J. D. Peech, M.R.C.V.S., Wentworth. 
I FORw^ARD per Midland Railway two fractured humeri, 
which accident, I think, is an exceedingly unusual one, as 
occurring in the same animal and at the same time. The 
history of the case is very brief, and, I regret to add, not very 
satisfactory. 
A brown filly, out of a thoroughbred mare, by a roadster, the 
property of G. W. Chambers, Esq.,of Clough, near Rotherham, 
w’as placed in the keeping of a horse-breaker for the comple¬ 
tion of her education, having been partly broken by the 
bailiff of her owmer. For several davs the mare had been 
ridden, and w ent, I believe, very well, having shown, hitherto, 
very little temper. 
On Thursday the 5th of February, she was ridden as usual, 
and at the latter part of the day—according to the breaker’s 
statements—she began to be a little ungovernable, in conse¬ 
quence of w hich he began to riot her,” but nothing unusual 
happened. 
