INDEX 



Abdomen, surgical regions of, 7 

 Abdominal incision, position of, in 

 laparo-enterotomy, 159 

 organs, tabular arrangement of, 

 16 

 Aloes and opium inadvisable in 

 intestinal impaction, 92, 98 

 in intestinal impaction, 92 

 Ammonium carbonate in intestinal 

 impaction, 94 

 hydrate in gastric tympany, 6^ 

 Anatomical predisposing causes of 



colic, 26, 27 

 Anatomy of the stomach, 9 

 Antizymotics in gastric tympany, 



intra-intestinal injection of, in 

 tympanites, 179 

 Auscultation, 22 



Bowel, incision and suture of, 161 

 puncturing for intestinal tym- 

 pany, 174, 177 



Bowels, inflammation of, 182 

 stoppage of, 76 



Calculus in small colon, 169 

 Care in diagnosis, 21 

 Case of gastric tympany, 66 

 Cases of subacute obstruction of 

 double colon, 104, 118 

 small intestines, 138, 139 

 Cause, exciting, of intestinal impac- 

 tion, 89 

 of pain in intestinal impac- 

 tion, 89 



Causes, anatomical predisposing, of 

 colic, 26, 27 

 of enteritis, 185 

 of gastric impaction, 45 



tympany, 51 

 of intestinal tympany, 17 1 

 of ruptured stomach, 69 

 of subacute obstruction of the 

 double colon, 78 

 single colon, 119 

 small intestines, 129 

 of superpurgation, 195 

 physiological predisposing, of 

 colic, 25, 28 

 Caution against use of sedatives, 

 29, 65, 97, 192 

 in gastric tympany, 65 

 Chloral hydrate in intestinal impac- 

 tion, 98 

 in superpurgation, 198 

 Classification of equine colics 



(Friedberger's), 2 

 Colic, anatomical predisposing 

 causes of, 26, 27 

 caused by intestinal septic infec- 

 tion, 42, 185 

 comparison of human with 



equine, 4, 29 

 Friedberger's classification of, 2 

 flatulent, 171 

 its derivation, I 

 pliysiological predisposing 



causes of, 25, 28 

 treatment of, in foals, 203 



in yearlings and two-year- 

 olds, 201 



