50 THE IMPROVED ARl OF FARRIERY. 



there. He was so rauch convulsed that he could 

 neither eat his hay or corn, and his neck so stiff that 

 he could not reach to drink. The man that led him 

 was forced to stop every hundred yards on account 

 of the stiffness of his limbs and the shortness of his 

 breath. When examined, however, he did not appear 

 so much convulsed as those which have worms in the 

 stomach or intestines, or imposthumations in the vis- 

 cera. By working his mouth it might be opened a 

 little, neither were his limbs so stiff, or so much con- 

 tracted. It was evident he was very costive, for he 

 often made motions to dung, but could not part with 

 more than a few small hard balls, which showed the 

 necessity of opening oily clysters. 



He had two every day at first, which brought him 

 to dung pretty freely, and soon recovered the use 

 of his jaws so as to eat hay and scalded bran. After 

 this he had opening drinks administered to hnn, and 

 the dung he voided in a copious purgation was in vast 

 loads, and must have lain a considerable time pent up 

 within him, and when this load was once discharged 

 he soon recovered, and without the help of any other 

 means." 



On an occasion when means were not taken speedy 

 enough to obtain a cure in this disease, Gibson gives 

 us the following account of a post mortem exami- 

 nation : — 



" The stomach and the intestines, both large and 

 small, were filled and crammed to such a degree that 

 it would have been impossible, by any means whatever, 

 to have procured the least vent. For all the aliment 

 that was in the stomach, and the dung in the intestinal 

 canal, from one end to the other, was entirely dry and 

 without moisture, and before they were laid open ap- 

 peared as hard and full crammed as a sausage, without 



