An inquiry into the reasons why the horse rarely vomits / by Joseph Sampson Gamgee.

  • Gamgee, Sampson, 1828-1886.
Date:
[1852]
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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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    sumed eating, and presented no other symptoms. If I had been a little less cautious in the avoidance of fallacy, it is very likely I should, in observing these muscular phenomena in two of the experiments, have succeeded in seeing attempts to vomit; but they assuredly were not such, for they did not in any degree resemble the efforts made by the same animals to evacuate the bladder and rectum, or the efforts made by the dog and man to empty the stomach through the oesophagus. Considering the vague manner in which M. Dupuy alludes to his experiments, and, on the other hand, confident of the fairness with which my own have been conducted and recounted, I feel myself justified in opposing my conclusions to his, and in stating that all the attempts hitherto made to excite efforts to vomit in the horse by emetics have failed. This unsixsceptibility to emetic action, and the very rare manifestation of the phenomena of vomiting by the horse, must obviously be regarded as cause and effect, and, consequently, as the answer to the question, Whv does the horse rarely vomit ? 7th February, 1852.