1 88 Veterinary Medicine. 



Paper-ball. In the museum of the N. Y. State Veterinary 

 College is a conglomerate ball of paper taken from the stomach 

 of a hog by Dr. Johnson, Sioux City. 



Phosphatic Calculi have been described as found in the 

 stomach, but this is evidently an error, as the acid secretion would 

 have speedily dis.solved them. The error doubtless came from 

 mistaking the transverse colon for the stomach. 



Sand and Gravel arrive in the stomach of the horse from 

 pasturing on loo.se sandy land, the plants being pulled up by the 

 roots and swallowed together with the sand adherent. Also from 

 drinking water from shallow streams with sandy bottoms. Feed- 

 ing of grain from the ground is a cause of swallowing sand, earth 

 and pebbles. Licking the soil in acidity of the stomach is another 

 cause. Fodder that has been packed down and mixed with earth, 

 and that which has been blown full of sand or dust, and roots 

 eaten from the ground in wet weather lead to the ingestion of 

 much sand or earth. Shetland ponies taken from the islands 

 pass .sand for some weeks. Dogs taught to fetch and carrj^ 

 swallow stones, pebbles, marbles, etc., accidentally. 



Nails, Wires, Needles, Pins, etc. More or less pointed 

 metallic objects are often taken in with the food by gluttonous 

 horses and though usually arrested in the intestines they .some- 

 times irritate or wound the stomach. 



Fragments of cloth, leather, or whalebone are similarly 

 taken with the food, or in case of depraved appetite are de- 

 liberately chewed and swallowed. 



Playthings and small household articles are especially 



taken by puppies through mere wantonness. Rubber balls, 



pieces of metal, thread, cord, cloth, bits of leather, .sponge, horse 



hair, human hair, corks, bits of wood and everything obtainable 



of small size may l)e swallowed and found in the stomach. 



Pigs swallow pieces of wood and other objects. 



Birds habitually .swallow pebbles and ordinary objects are 



ground down in the gizzard. They also readily vomit feathers, 



bones and other offensive matters that have proven indigestible. 



Syniptovis. In horses there are no especial symptoms, 



though the foreign bodies sometimes cause gastric catarrh, and 



in other cases produce wounds and ulcers or block the pylorus 



causing violent colic. Most commonly the foreign bodies pass 



