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usual anodyne draughts, proved of no avail, and in a few hours 
she commenced throwing herself several times violently on 
the ground, seemingly unconscious, till at length she was 
totally unable to rise. My opinion was, that the symptoms as 
a whole indicated the existence of calculi. 
The result of xhe post-mortem examination showed that the 
large intestine was ruptured, and a round dung-ball ” 
was found in the abdominal cavity, having escaped through the 
laceration. As the mare expired almost directly she fell the 
last time, I am inclined to attribute the rupture to the fall 
rather than to the pressure of the calculus. The kidneys 
were enlarged and inflamed; but no lesion of any other part 
existed. The other calculi which I send you were found 
within the intestine. Her age was eleven. 
COMMENTS ON PASSING EVENTS AND VETE¬ 
RINARY PRACTICE. 
By “Trebble Ex.’* 
[We print the following extraordinary production ver¬ 
batim et literatim, as it contains matter for thought.] 
Dere Mr. Hedditer, —I daresay youl be verry much 
surprised to receve a note from me, stil no mattur, I must 
first tell you Ime a verry hold reder of your verry valabel 
work & look forrard heverry month for is comeing hout, I 
verry much wish your Hopponent the Vetenary Jurnal wud 
not print at same time as yourn, if one cum on the 15 the 
month twoud be better for vure readers and no wos for 
neither of ye: 
I ave red your book a grate many yers and ave got a good 
dele of good from out of it: 
I must tel you ime a hold member of the perfesshun and 
I sometimes blush wen I think how you as all ben lookd in 
the Mouth by that yankey, farmer Mills, he certanly as 
hopperated for rigs wich our qualifide members didnt serve to 
think abote afore, but Mr. Hedditur he gives advise abote wat 
the hold members of tbe Perfesshun aught to now sumthing : 
I shud verry much like to se him hopperate and also use 
the crasur, I thote sum of hour hold members wuld tell us, 
wich his the best way of hopperating, I se in hontaryo the 
yankeys dont now wich his the best, one rekummens one 
plan & one a nother, and one says do wat you think best: 
I ham gettin a hold man and hopperate on a good number 
of hanin.als every year hoccasenly loosing one, has I suppose 
