338 DISEASES or the intestines. 



accompanied witli an illustrative engraving, wliich represents 

 more naturally the state of the parts than anything of the 

 kind I have met with. Mr. C. Percivall has related, in 

 ' The Veterinarian ' for 1830, a case, in which the ileum 

 proved to be in itself '^ twisted and thus strangulated, close 

 upon its termination in the csecum.^^^ This is a favorite 

 spot for volvulus to happen in. 



The Symptoms this internal stricture and strangulation 

 of intestine produces are_, in general, violent to a degree, 

 though similar in many respects to those resulting from 

 colic, or, rather, enteritis. The poor sufferer paws, and lies 

 down, and rolls, and looks at his flank, and pants, in horrible 

 agony ; his belly becomes tense and tympanitic ; his pulse is 

 quick and small — 70 or 80 — but not thready ; at least, I 

 have not found it so. For the first half a dozen hours, all 

 that we do appears of no avail. Afterwards, a calm takes 

 place, and we are apt to think our remedies have induced 

 it ; let us, however, but examine the pulse and we shall 

 find our patient is evidently sinking; perhaps, at this very 

 time, is all over in a tremor and cold sweat; and this 

 deceitful calm proves nothing but the too certain precursor of 

 mortification. The animal commonly dies in convulsions. 



Duration. — Two of the cases to which I have alluded 

 survived forty-eight hours ; the other sank in six hours after 

 the attack. 



Rupture of the Intestine has followed entanglement. 

 A curious and interesting case of this description^ happened 

 in the practice of Mr. Pritchard, Wolverhampton. 



A cart-horse continued experiencing fits of gripes every 

 three or four days, which were sometimes relieved by 



' A fatal case of volvulus occurred to me, in which a knuckle of the same 

 portion of the ileum was found insinuated and strangulated within the peritoneal 

 passage through which the duodenum crosses the spine ; the horse, with violent 

 symptoms resemhling " gripes," having so great a propensity to lie down that he 

 coidd not be kept upon his legs at exercise. Remedy of all description failed to 

 afiford him permanent relief; the tobacco enema seemed to give him temporary 

 ease. He lived nearly forty. eight hours; but an hour before death appeared 

 to have become free from pain. 



2 Detailed in the 'Veterinarian,' vol. iii, p. 95. 



