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the body as speedily as generated. The horse and cow 

 cannot belch or eruct wind from their stomachs as man and 

 the dog can ; hence the frequency of tympanitis in horses 

 and cows. 



Treatment. Try injections first, as in many cases I have 

 cured this variety by this means alone. If gas or wind 

 come away with the injection, the case will soon end well. 

 When no benefit is derived from the injections, give, in a 

 little cold water, aloes in powder, one ounce; sulphuric 

 ether, one ounce ; tincture of opium, two ounces. If these 

 measures fail in giving ease from^pain, pour two ounces of 

 chloroform on a small moist sponge, and hold it to the 

 nostrils, not too closely, but admit a portion of air with 

 the fumes of the chloroform, (see Medicines.) The sponge 

 may be placed in a towel, and the ends carried up around 

 the nose of the horse, to save waste ; or place the sponge 

 in the bottom of a nose-bag, and put it on the head, but 

 not too close upon the nose. 



Last Remedy. It must be confessed that the longer this 

 disease is unrelieved, the more remote is the chance of 

 recovery, as the bowel sometimes contracts upon itself, or 

 nearly closes altogether. To overcome this condition an 

 operation is recommended, which I do not say will be a 

 success, nor yet a failure. When it failed in my hands, it 

 was not because the gas was not let out of the bowels, but 

 because the blood had become so disintegrated, and the 

 nervous centres so paralyzed, that the sanative powers of 

 the constitution had received too great a shock to ever rally " 

 again. 



The Operation. Procure an instrument, (see Instru- 

 ments,) called a trocar. If this be not at hand, sharpen a 

 breakfast knife, and measure an equal distance from the 

 haunch bone and the short rib, and not too high upon the 



