710 SPORADIC DISEASES. 



" London, ^th June 1879. 



" My dear Sir — In reply to your note you kindly sent me of 29th 

 ult. in reference to the case of stoppage of the bowels of a horse I 

 had under my care, I hare now to inform you that he died on Monday 

 evening, May 26, it being the thirtieth day that no fseces had passed 

 from him. "Within six hours of his death he started blowing, suffering 

 a deal of pain, abdomen distended very much. J^ext morning, on 

 post mortem examination, I found the bowels gorged, and a calculus 

 firmly fixed in the single colon, weighing 2|- pounds, 5 inches in 

 diameter. All the other parts were perfectly healthy. It appeared 

 to me that the bowels becoming so full, caused him to die sooner than 

 he would have done had less solid food been given him, although the 

 result would have been the same." 



