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the bowels, and also the stom ach partly loaded with undigested 
food. I came to the conclusion the animal had been over fed, 
thus causing indigestion and over distension, and that the 
rupture was caused by mechanical violence due to falling and 
rolling.— Ibid.. 
EQUINE HYSTERIA. (?) 
The following case has occurred in my practice, and think¬ 
ing it may be of interest to some of your readers I forward 
particulars. 
Last Tuesday evening, the 9th, about 9:30 P. M., I was re¬ 
quested to attend at one of the yards under my supervision. 
The message delivered to me was, “ Please come up at once 
as there is a mare gone mad.” Upon arrival at yard, I found 
patient a five year-old mare that had been in the company’s 
service about three months; she was standing in the same 
stall occupied by her since she had been in the yard. On 
attempting to approach her she became absolutely mad, and 
fought at me with her fore legs. Upon going behind her she 
kicked viciously. When left alone she stretched herself out 
till her body was nearly on the ground, and made a most 
peculiar noise, something like a pig under a gate. I removed 
other horses away from her and got a long rope round her 
neck, pulled her round and attempted to take the pulse, ex¬ 
amine membranes, etc., but I could not get anywhere near 
her, about every five or six minutes she would raise herself on 
her hind legs and fight. As I was of opinion that any treat¬ 
ment was out of the question, after a lot of trouble I got her 
to move and had her taken down into a loose box, and there 
left with a man to watch her so that she did not get cast. 
She amused herself by keeping up the same noise for about 
five hours, walking round the box and occasionally kicking 
the door. 
I saw her again next morning, Wednesday, about 8:30 A. 
M., she was perfectly quiet, feeding all right, pulse 48, temper¬ 
ature 101.4 0 ; but she had been in oestrum to a degree I never 
saw equalled. 
