IMPACTION OF THE CECUM 



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reservoir, which I consider is in a great many points 

 similar to the cecum of the horse, and of introducing as 

 high as twenty gallons of warm water containing saline 

 purgatives. 



This treatment has so far never failed to effect an 

 evacuation of this organ except in one case in which I 

 afterwards found to have been caused by tuberculosis. 



Likewise in this disease I consider that water in such 

 quantities as the subject can be induced to drink or that 

 can be given by drench passes by the full rumen and 

 enters the other stomach and consequently fails to reach 

 the mark as would also any medicaments dissolved or 

 suspended in the water. 



When conventional treatments continually failed in this 

 almost parallel condition this treatment was successful 

 and I think it not improbable that it will also do the work 

 in impaction of the cecum; although in this case, of 

 course, the stomach tube can not be introduced directly 

 into the affected organ, but the trocar can, and I have 

 hopes of being successful with it. 



