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from the time of the operation was informed that the animal 

 experienced immediate relief from the difficulty, and was then 

 well. 



Up to the present time there appears to be no information 

 afloat, in this country, regarding the cause and remedy of this 

 singular difficulty, hence I presume that some reliable account 

 from other sources may be acceptable to the reader of this 

 work. The following account of ^' gut-tie^' is from the pen of 

 Surgeon Crowhurst, published in the London Veterinarian: — 



"I was requested, on the loth of last month, to attend a 

 two-year-old steer, the property of W. W. Daws, Esq., of 

 Ewhurst, which was taken ill the day previously, but it being 

 late when the illness was observed, and my residence nine miles 

 distant, some aperient medicine was administered, and orders 

 given to send for me the next morning. 



" When I arrived, the steer was lying down in a shed, but 

 soon got up and walked across the yard. His back was arched, 

 and the abdomen tucked up. 



" He was somewhat excited at first, but soon began to 

 tremble, and to step in a backward direction by putting one 

 hind leg directly behind the other. Occasionally he turned his 

 head towards his side, and would kick at his belly, and now and 

 then stretch himself out, and curve his loins to a considerable 

 extent. After being in the yard for a short time he returned 

 into the shed and lay down again, doing this in a very careful 

 manner. He soon got up a second time, and stepped back- 

 wards as before, seemingly for the purpose of getting his hind 

 quarters against some resisting body. The man in charge of 

 the animal explained that the symptoms had undergone but 

 very little change since he was taken ill, and that he had not 

 eaten any thing nor voided any faeces. There were, however, 

 several evacuations of mucus lying about the yard, which had 

 been expelled from the bowels. 



Having procured a wagon-rope, and obtained the assistance 



of two or three men, I had the animal cast, and examined 



him per rectum. There were no faeces present, but on passing 



my hand onward I readily detected a band, which was drawn 



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