STRANGULATION OF THE INTESTINE BY THE 

 OVARIAN LIGAMENT IN SOLIPEDS. 



Pediculated ovary in mare. Strangulation. Diagnosis by rectal explora- 

 tion. Castration. 



Ill nicst healthy animals the ovary is light and its situation in 

 the anterior border of the broad ligament so firm that it is impos- 

 sible for it to enwrap and constrict the intestines. In the mare, 

 however, the healthy ovary may be almost as large as the closed 

 fist, and when further enlarged by cystic or other degeneration, 

 it drags upon and lengthens the ligament until that may form a 

 long pedicle which can easily be wound round the floating colon 

 or .small intestine. 



Diagnosis of this trouble can often be satisfactorily made by 

 rectal exploration, and U'eatinent will consi.st in the removal of the 

 offending body by castration through an incision made in the 

 anterior part of the roof of the vagina close behind the os uteri. 



PERITONITIS. 



Acute : Chronic ; general ; local ; idiopathic ; traumatic ; surgical ; 

 accidental ; perforation ; strangulation ; cachexia ; microbian almost al- 

 ways ; aseptic foreign bodies escape into bowel : Castration ; gastric or 

 intestinal rupture or ulcer, enteritis, obstructions, cold storms, draughts, 

 chills, all lower resisting power of tissue ; generalization through peritoneal 

 serum. Non-infective peritonitis from chemical irritants. Paves the way 

 for microbes of ingesta. Rheumatic peritonitis, tuberculous, actinomycotic, 

 microbes differ. 



All inflammations of the peritoneum go under this general 

 name. At the same time clinical and pathological distinctions 

 have been made with the view of distinguishing more precisely 

 different classes of ca.ses. Thus it is described as aaite and 

 chronic, general and local, idiopathic and traumatic, surgical, 

 accidental, or hy perforation, by strayigulation and by cachexies . 



The advance of bacteriolog}' has greatly simplified our views of 

 the disease, as microbes are found to be at work in practicall}' all 

 cases. If we could exclude microbes from this membrane, 

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