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Acute Dilatation of the Stomacli of tlie Horse. 



Chloride of baiiuiii shoulil never bo uso(l as in other colicky affections of the 

 horse, because occasionally it causes sudden death or a rupture of the stomach. 

 During these years when chloride of barium was used extensively in the Budapest 

 Clinic on horses with colicky affections, fatal results occurred in one third of the 

 cases, due to rupture of the stomach intra vitam. Hence this drug is used no 

 longer in horses with colics in the Budapest Clinic and the mortality is less than 

 it was formerly. 



Laxatives are of no avail in grave cases, and in these, as in- 

 deed in all cases of gastric dilatation, the stomach should be 



Fi"-. '66. Stomach catheter for llor^ 



emptied with the aid of the stomach tube and should subse- 

 quently be irrigated. This is the only rational treatment which 

 can be carried out not only in the clinic, but also in private 

 practice. After the gases and fluids have left the stomach and 

 after the latter has been irrigated, the animals at once become 

 quiet, but the dilatation has been complicated by intestinal ca- 



