408 DISEASES OE THE INTESTINES. 



The mare, the subject of it, had been hunted with the fox -hounds three 

 weeks previous to her attack, carrying fourteen stone, and had fallen 

 quite exhausted at a fence. She was in the field once after this, but had 

 little to do. On the day of her attack, she had been ridden gently for 

 seven miles. She did not sweat on her return, neither was any fault 

 found with her going. And yet a few minutes afterwards an attack of 

 violent apparent colic set in. Mr. Cleaver viewed the case as one of 

 intus-susception, and very judiciously proposed, as a dernier remedy, 

 that she should be bled to syncope^ which was done by letting the blood 

 flow in a full stream as she lay down. Presently she broke out in a cold 

 sweat, and after lying quiet for about ten minutes, after several attempts 

 got up. Her flanks worked violently ; she rocked, her legs tottered, she 

 stood trembling for a minute or two, and then dropped as if she had been 

 shot. " There was the most violent and peculiar lifting of the chest'' Mr, 

 Cleaver had ever seen. She died in less than five hours after the attack. 

 " An opening was discovered in the left side of the diaphragm, through 

 which six yards and a half of the small gut were drawn into the chest ; 

 and the gut was so firmly strangulated, that it could not be moved either 

 way without danger of breaking. One part of it adhered to the posterior 

 part of the diaphragm. The intestine within the chest was in the highest 

 state of inflammation. The mesentery was torn in several places. There 

 was also a tumour on the mesentery which contained about a pound of 

 dark coagulated blood ; about four quarts of blood were likewise eflused 

 within the chest, which had flowed partly from the various lacerations, 

 but principally from this tumour. 



A case occurred to myself illustrative of the same 

 remark. A troop-horse was shown to me on the 4th of 

 April, 1853, very lame in his hind- quarters from having 

 slipped up and fallen. The regiment marched five days 

 afterwards to Windsor, whither he had to be taken per rail- 

 way. On the 7th, I ordered him for his lameness,, physic 

 and fomentation ; he having then no other symptom ; but on 

 the 11th, the day the physic had " set " in the morning, the 

 horse (17 years old), was seized with symptoms of '^^ gripes/' 

 I was called at 7 o'clock in the morning to him ; found him 

 suffering from, apparently, violent colic, which I felt at first 

 inclined to connect with the operation of the physic. He 

 would, in spite of all we could do, lie down and roll upon his 

 back, the position he was fondest of; the pulse was neither 

 small nor thready. The pains were periodical, every five or 



