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was lifted and then cautiously let go; it fell slowly and 
gradually, not quickly, as it would have done under ordinary 
conditions. The patient was at the time quite insensible.” 
Dr. Hooke informs me that its effects on animals were 
analogous (to those on man). He gave ten grains of Nipalese 
Churrus dissolved in spirit to a middling-sized dog. “ In 
half an hour he became stupid and sleepy, dozing at intervals, 
starting up, wagging his tail as if extremely contented; he 
ate some food greedily. On being called to, he staggered to 
and fro, and his face assumed a look of utter and hopeless 
drunkenness. These symptoms lasted about two hours, and 
then gradually passed away. In six hours he was perfectly 
well and lively.” 
Neither Hops nor Hemp have a place in the Veterinary 
Pharmacopoeia, but were we of the profession we know of no 
plants that we should be so anxious to test their effects upon 
the lower animals. We have seen wonderful quieting in** 
fluences both upon horses and cattle from the exhibition of a 
quart of beer, more than we think can be fairly attributable 
to the small amount of alcohol it may contain; and the 
effects of Hemp upon man and the lower animals are just 
those that are often so desirous to produce, and on this 
account we think the plant deserving more notice than it has 
yet received at the hands of the veterinary practitioner. 
CASE OF LACERATION OF VAGINA AND REC¬ 
TUM OF A MARE IN THE ACT OF PAR¬ 
TURITION. 
By R. Hudson, M.R.C.V.S., Retford. 
The following is a short history of a case of parturition 
which Professor Simonds had the kindness to give my son 
advice upon in April last, and being a very unusual case, 
perhaps it may be deemed worth recording. 
On the night of the £7th March I was called out of bed to 
attend a five-year-old draught mare, belonging to Mr. 
Creighton, Ordsall, near Retford, in consequence of pro¬ 
tracted parturition, it being her first foal. On arrival I 
found that the persons in attendance had taken the foal away ; 
and that during labour the head and neck of the foal had 
protruded from the anus of the mare, to an extent as to reach 
nearly as far downwards as her hocks. On further inquiry I 
