184 DADD'S VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 



No. 20 Fluid extract of ginger Ice. 



Fluid extract of golden seal 2 oz. 



Hyposulphite of soda 2 drachmft. 



Water 4 oz. 



After ttie exhibition of tlie above, I threw into the rectum t 

 couj»]e of qaarts of .soap-suds, to which was added a handful of 

 Bait. In the course of about an hour the animal appeared to ht 

 somewhat relieved, and passed a large quantity of tats, whole. 

 I repeated the dose ; also the enema. The patient very soon after- 

 ward passed a large quantity of excrement, mixed with. oats, and 

 M).rapidly improved that I left him, and did not see him until the 

 aext morning, when he appeared to have entirely recovered. 

 With the exception of a bran-mash or two, the above comprise 

 ihe whole of the treatment. 



It was lucky for the horse as well as the parties concerned that 

 the animal did not get corn instead of oats; for the same quantity 

 of corn would have surely caused death, from the fact tliat when this 

 irticle of fodder is submitted, within the stomach, to the action of 

 heat and moisture, it increases in bulk in a ratio of about five to 

 one, and the usual result is rupture of the stomach. Still, should 

 any of our readers be called upon to treat a case of the latter kind, 

 there is no other plan of treatment with which I am acquainted 

 that will be likely to succeed in saving the animal than the one 

 here indicated. 



Another case. — The patient, a gray gelding, aged about ciglit 

 years, the property of Messrs. Wright & Bros., of Chicago, had 

 performed an ordinary day's work without showing any symptoms 

 of ill-health. About five o'clock in the evening he was unhar- 

 nessed and ]>ut up for the nigh.t. In a few minutes it was noticed 

 that he began to bloat, and that the abdomen increased in size very 

 rapidly. A messenger was immediately dispatched f )r me. <^n 

 arriving at the stable, I found the animal in a very dangerous con- 

 dition. The abdomen was enormously distended, and an eructation 

 of gas from the stomach, by the moutli, was ccntinuall; occurring. 

 The respirations were laborious and accelerated, and very much 

 quickened; ]ndse, very indistinct; extremities and suifacc of the 

 body; quite chilly ; rectum, protru<ling ; and the animal was very 

 unea.sy, and appeared to suffer much pain. Occasionally he would 

 get down and make desperate efforts to roll on his back, yei he 

 did not succeed, for he was round as a barrel ; an ' when he c aid 



