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sweats. At length the pain disappears, the animal stands quietly, 

 trembling, and sighing heavily ; the pulse, which at first was full and 

 bounding, now becomes small, weak, and scarcely perceptible, when 

 the patient finally drops and dies. 



258. Numerous lesions of the horse's bowels also occur, such as 

 large clots of blood found between the outer and inner walls of the 

 intestine, the symptoms of which are of a subacute nature. Loops 



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Fig. 9. — Combined Loop, Twist, and Knot of Small 

 Intestine of the Horse. 



or knots are also met with, and in these cases a rent has been made 

 in the mesentery or net — generally caused by the horse rolling and 

 tossing about in colic — and through this a portion of the small 

 intestine is pushed, becoming strangulated, and filled with dark, 

 congested, bloody fluid. The expression of pain in such cases is 

 something terrible to behold, the animal being dangerous to go near. 

 Again, we have twists occurring, where one portion of the bowel gets 

 rolled over another ; but the pain here is not quite so violent as in 



