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SECTION XI. 



DISEA.SES OF THE INTESTINES. 



GA.STRO-ENTERITIS. 

 SPASMODIC COLIC. 

 TYMPANITIC COLIC. 

 ENTERITIS. 

 VOLVULUS. 

 INTUS-SUSCEPTION. 

 CONSTIPATION. 

 INTESTINAL CONCRETIONS. 



WORMS. 



DIARRHCEA. 



DYSENTERY. 

 HERNIA. 



INGUINAL. 



SCROTAL. 



UMBILICAL. 



VENTRAL. 



DIAPHRAGMATIC. 



PROLAPSUS ANI. 

 HEMORRHOIDS. 



The intestines of the horse are more obnoxious to disease 

 than his stomach : they are greatly more voluminous ; the 

 part they have to perform in the process of digestion is 

 more complex; the aliment remains for a much longer time 

 within their cavities^ so that any thing hurtful it may contain 

 has more opportunity of developing its deleterious effects; 

 added to which, from the extreme length, tortuosities, and 

 irregularities in shape and volume of their canal, concretions 

 are more likely to form within them and obstruct their 

 passages. Moreover, the intestines, in the performance of 

 their functions, have entailed upon them a motion from 

 place to place — one of a vermicular description — in the 

 course of which it occasionally happens that one of them 

 gets twisted or tied in some indissoluble kind of knot, 

 wherefrom obstruction and consequent loss of life are likely 

 to ensue. Several of the intestinal diseases are of a nature 

 highly acute, rapidly destructive, and require correspondent 

 activity of treatment ; others there are so insidious in their 

 course, that, unless special attention be drawn to them, they 

 will exist and depart without our knowledge ; or, they will 

 run into a stage in which they become out of the control 

 of medicine before our attention be attracted to them. In 

 making these observations, I feel I am approaching the con- 



