An inquiry into the reasons why the horse rarely vomits / by Joseph Sampson Gamgee.
- Sampson Gamgee
- Date:
- [1852]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An inquiry into the reasons why the horse rarely vomits / by Joseph Sampson Gamgee. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![7 AN INQUIRY INTO THE REASONS WHY THE HORSE RARELY VOMITS. BY JOSEPH SAMPSON GAMGEE, Esq. Student iu Medicine in Universitj' College, London. [From the London Journal of Medicine.] This subject has, within the last two centuries, engaged the attention of numerous physiologists, the object of whose inquiries, however, has differed somewhat from ours; for the majority of them have been imbued with the prevalent opinion that the horse never vomits. Thus Lamorier^ addressed to the French Academy of Sciences Une memoire ou Von donne les raisons poiirquoi les chevaux ne vomissent jwmt; and M. Flourens^ recently published a paper on non-vomiting in the horse, heading it with the following dogma, Le cheval ne vomit point; c'est Id ce que chacun sait. Were it not that M. Flourens is one of the most recent, as well as most reno\\Tied, writers on this subject, we should not deem it neces- sary to contradict this statement, because it has long been known that horses occasionally, though rarely, do vomit. True it is that, since as a general proposition we cannot assert that the horse does vomit, it might be supposed that the converse statement would hold good; and so it does; but only in a sense that is too vague to warrant its being adopted as the title of a vexed scientific question. In the pursuit of our inquiry, under present circumstances, it being indispensable that we should clear the path from error before Ave can hope successfully to attain the truth, we shall, firstly, quote cases of horses having vomited; secondly, analyse the opinions which, at vari- ous periods, have been propounded on this subject; and, thirdly, ad- duce reasons to prove why vomiting in the horse is of rare occurrence. I. Cases of Vomiting in the Horse. In relating the history of a horse affected with spasmodic colic, M. Chariot^ makes the following 1 Histoire de I'Academie Eoyale des Sciences. Annee 1733. 2 Gazette Medicale de Paris. Annee 1849, No. 5, 3 Fevrier, p. 79-81. ' Recueil de Medecine Yeterinaire, tome iv, p. 128.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22276695_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
