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I have been in practice twenty years and have never seen 
a case like it before. If this was a case of uterine hysteria in 
the mare they are very rare, and I cannot think it was due to 
cerebral disease, as the mare so soon resumed her normal 
condition.— Ibid. 
REMARKABLE CASE IN A FOAL. 
By John Barr, M.R C.Y.S., Halvergate, Norfolk. 
My object in relating the following case is merely to place 
it on record. I cannot recollect having heard of a similar 
case, and although there is not much useful information to be 
derived from it, I hope its extraordinary nature is sufficient 
to warrant my object. 
On Monday night (3d inst.) I was called upon to assist a 
mare in the act of foaling. There was not much wrong with 
the position of the foal, the head and neck being merely de¬ 
pressed and lying between the fore legs, and inasmuch as 
these were in the vagina I had little difficulty in getting the 
foal. Having removed the foal and seeing nothing further 
amiss I left, but almost immediately thereafter the man in at¬ 
tendance noticed the foal straining, and on looking to see if 
there had been any faeces passed he observed a mass of in¬ 
testine protruding from the anus. Within half an hour of the 
birth of the foal I was again in attendance, and found on ex¬ 
amination that the protruding mass consisted of small intes¬ 
tine and mesentery, with a small portion of everted rectum 
which was intensely inflamed. I considered nothing could 
be done to benefit the little sufferer so I advised slaughter. 
Post-mortem examination next day revealed a rupture three 
inches long in the rectum, the mucous membrane of which 
was inflamed throughout. The protruding portion of the 
ileum measured four yards, and before death had become 
strangulated. 
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Was the rectum inflamed before birth, and did the rupture 
occur before or after? I am at a loss to ascribe a cause or 
fix the time of the pathological changes.— Ibid. 
