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humeral muscles ; profuse general perspiration, becoming 

 patchy; with manifestations of extreme pain; couching 

 walk; dog-sitting attitude and general fullness of abdo- 

 men. Brown-red nasal discharge and salivation, together 

 with belchings of foul-smelling gas, later retching, which 

 at times constitutes an actual vomit; tossing of head and 

 elevation of the upper lip, exposing the incisors ; anxious 

 look; dilated nostrils and a peculiar catchy, sobbing res- 

 piration induced through diaphragmatic pressure; per- 

 istalsis is diminished but continues, and the use of the 

 trocar and canula fails to relieve, though some gas may 

 escape. The gait becomes uncertain and following a 

 period of the most excruciating pain, the animal dies of 

 suffocation, rupture of the stomach or nervous collapse, 

 without that period of dullness characteristic of stran- 

 gulation. When attempting to give liquids by the mouth 

 note a tendency of the patient to crowd forward when 

 the head is elevated; likewise, a disinclination or an ap- 

 parent inability to swallow owing to the distension of the 

 stomach. 



2. — False Gastric Tympany. — False gastric tym- 

 pany is an accumulation of gas involving more es- 

 pecially the diaphragmatic flexion of the great colon. As 

 a result of pressure exerted upon the stomach and dia- 

 phragm, an animal suffering with this complaint presents 

 symptoms that are quite similar to the foregoing, hence 

 my designation "false gastric tympany." A differentia- 

 tion is, however, quite possible; the gulping is odorless, 

 the breathing labored, but free from sobbing, and there 

 is an escape of an abundance of gas per rectum and 

 a tendency to greater comfort following enterocentesis. 



