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intestine below. The parts were almost " sphacelated/' 

 Mr. Cartwright is inclined to think " that this was originally a 

 case of spasmodic colic ;'' and that in the fit '' one portion 

 of gut had been drawn into the other," (^Veterinarian/ 

 1845.) In ^ The Veterinarian ' for 1843, Mr. Walker, 

 V.S.J Southam, mentions a case of a cart-colt, five weeks 

 old. The animal suffered much with enteritic symptoms 

 for several hours ; after death it was found that " a portion 

 of the ileum had passed into the same intestine situated 

 posteriorly to it, to the extent of more than two feet. 

 And this was in a state of decomposition, &c.'' But 

 Mr. Hales, of Oswestry, met with an instance of the ivliole 

 of the caecum being inverted and received within the colon, 

 the former being in a state of inflammation bordering on 

 mortification. This horse suffered violent paroxysms of 

 colic for four days. The late Mr. Turner, V.S., Montreal, 

 sent a case to ^The Veterinarian-' in 1849, in which "no 

 less than sixteen feet four inches of the ileum had become 

 inverted (invaginated).'' Mr. Dunsford, V.S., London, 

 attended an aged horse for influenza, who the following day 

 was attacked in Mr. Dunsford's own stable with sudden 

 violent colic pains. He died in ten hours. And there 

 appeared — besides " considerable inflammation" of the peri- 

 toneal coat of both large and small intestines, more. 

 especially of the caecum and colon, which were in an active 

 state of decomposition — protrusion of the ileum for eighteen 

 inches into the caecum. (Veterinarian, 1842.) In cases of 

 obstructed bowels, the pain is less acute and violent than in 

 colic, though there may be, and generally is, I believe, inter- 

 missions of freedom from pain, which again distinguish the 

 case from enteritis, wherein the pain or suffering is constant. 

 Again, when the case becomes protracted to three or four, 

 or more days, it is pretty certain it is not colic ; and as the 

 expressions of pain, and the pulse are at times quiet, it is 

 equally certain inflammation is not present. {Vide 'Vete- 

 rinarian,' 1843, December.) Sighing is often a prevalent, and 

 I believe ominous symptom, in hopeless cases. We have little 

 else to lead us to a suspicion of these and such-like internal 



