298 DISEASES OF THE STOMACH. 



the bars, escaped liim : he gnawed his halter, and licked the 

 walls, and ate up all the earth he could get at; and was a con- 

 firmed roarer." For many years he had heen subject to 

 violent colics, which became latterly more and more frequent. 

 In one of these paroxysms, at last, he died. There was 

 found in his stomach, after death, four pounds and a half of 

 earth and sand. He had, as was learned afterwards, escaped 

 from his groom on the morning of the day he died, and 

 galloped to the riding-school, where he was found eating the 

 earth and sand composing the floor. A brass wire, about 

 the size of a knitting needle, and eight or nine inches long, 

 was found sticking in the intestines, through whose walls it 

 had penetrated and had run into the lumbar muscles. 



In the same Journal for 1849, is related a case of 

 gastric calculus, by Mr. Bulman, V.S., North Shields, of 

 very extraordinary character. The horse was the property 

 of N. Morris, Esq., of Blue House, Usworth. The animal 

 had experienced some attacks of what appeared to be colic, 

 and relapse had occurred after long intervals of perfect 

 quietude and apparent health of a week and upwards; 

 although, at the same time, the symptoms were not alto- 

 gether precisely those of ordinary " gripes.'' Mr. Bulman 

 found her in her first attack after his summons, ''sitting 

 upon her right haunch, turning up her upper lip, neighing, 

 and looking around her in a wild and indescribable manner, 

 and occasionally turning her nose close into the region of the 

 heart. He raised her up, when she shook herself, and seemed 

 quite free from pain.'' Mr. Bulman gave her purgative 

 medicine. Three weeks after this attack, having experienced 

 one relapse in the interval, Mr. Bulman was summoned with 

 the message that the mare was " ten times worse than ever." 

 He at once told the man " that there must be something 

 seriously obstructing the passage of the food from the 

 stomach into the intestines, and that if flatus was com- 

 menced she would be dead before they could arrived This 

 prediction proved true. "The escape of air from the 

 stomach was tremendous. The' stomach was torn in all 

 directions; the whole of its contents floating within the 



