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given often in small quantity, of easy digestion, and of aqueous 

 composition. For dogs, milk, eggs and soups, or pulped raw 

 meat furnish examples. For hor.sesniilk gruels, boiled flax seed, 

 pulped roots may suffice. If the stomach is loaded as is usually 

 the case, it should be washed out with the stomach tube, which 

 when pas.sed into the stomach .should be raised at its free end 

 and filled with tepid water ; it is then suddenly lowered so as to 

 act as a syphon in evacuating the liquid contents of the stomach. 

 This may be repeated again and again, the .stomach in the ca.se 

 of the dog being manipulated so as to mix and float the solids 

 and favor their exit through the tube. Daily washing out of the 

 stomach by the tube is of the greatest possible value. 



Meanwhile we should .seek to improve the tone of the .stomach 

 by strychnia (horse 2 grs. . dog^^ &''• claib')- by salts of iron, and 

 by faradi.sation. 



To counteract fermentation, antiseptics (salol, naphthol, freshly 

 burned charcoal) may be given with each meal, along with pepsin 

 and hydrochloric acid. 



RUPTURE OF THE STOMACH IN SOEIPEDS. 



Mainly in soliped.s. Causes : overloading, fermentation, impossibilit}' of 

 eructation, violent concussions, falls, galop, concretions, dilatation, catarrh, 

 ulcers, cicatrices, abscesses. Symptoms : Anamnesis, colic relieved, fol- 

 lowed by prostration, sinking, complete anorexia, tender abdomen, vomiting, 

 no abdominal rumbling. Lesions : tear in greater curvature, most extensive in 

 outer coats, shreddy, bloody edges with clots, contents in omentum, other 

 seats, partial ruptures, Treatment : in partial ruptures, stomach pump, 

 diet. Prevention. 



This is pre-eminently a disea.se of solipeds for the rea.son that 

 they alone of domestic animals are especially liable to overload the 

 comparatively small stomach and are mostly unable to relieve the 

 overloaded viscus by eructation or vomiting. 



Causes. These are in the main overloading of the .stomach and 

 overdi.stension, by the gases of indigestion. To this are usually 

 added violent concussions when the animal throws itself down 

 violently. The stomach distended to the fullest possible capacity, 

 and lodged in a cavity which is not all equally tense, is compar- 



