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Secondly, one is forcibly struck by the grand oppor- 

 tunity this subject would have afforded for operative 

 measures if only a successful diagnosis could have been 

 made during life. 



I would fain hope that in this way the future success 

 of laparo-enterotomy lies. It may be that a long series 

 of colic cases treated without sedatives will eventually 

 lead to a greater and more frequent exactness in the 

 diagnosis of these obstructions ; that being done, the 

 operation will follow naturally. This cannot be expected 

 until a solely stimulant treatment is adopted by a large 

 number of veterinary surgeons, and the information 

 derived from their cases carefully chronicled. 



