320 GORGED STOMACH. — TYMPANY. 



first is the preservation if not the enhancement of the medical 

 attendant's reputation ; and secondly, the saving of expense to 

 the owner of the patient from the administration of medicine 

 under such a combination of hopeless circumstances." 



Symptoms. — The symptoms in some instances are peculiar, 

 and are such as to enable the close observer to determine the 

 fact at once ; while in other cases they are somewhat dubious 

 and uncertain. When Eupture arises from gorged stomach, it 

 is not uncommon for the more violent symptoms to suddenly 

 subside, and for the skin to gradually become dry. 



The more common symptoms are as follows : — The patient 

 crouches, and leans heavily against the wood- work of the stall 

 or loose box ; occasionally the head is elevated, and he curls 

 ■ the upper lip ; he regards the left side sometimes impatiently, 

 and sometimes with a fixed, steady look; he walks round and 

 round the box ; he occasionally stands still, puts forward both 

 fore-legs, and stretches himself out, as though desirous of 

 urinating. The eye is dull and listless ; its expression is pecu- 

 liar ; I cannot exactly describe it, but when once seen it is not 

 readily forgotten. Occasionally the animal lies down, and rolls 

 over from one side to the other ; when, if the abdomen con- 

 tains much watery fluid, the act of rolling displaces it, and the 

 sound elicited in consequence is of a nature readily under- 

 stood. The hair is generally cool and dry. Sometimes the 

 rupture takes place at the entrance of the stomach, in which 

 case the animal will vomit.* 



Etjptuee of the Diapheagm. — In gorged stomach, 

 Eupture of the Diaphragm, attended with an escape of the 



* Vomiting, however, is not to be regarded as pathognomonic of rupture 

 of the cardiac valve ; in cases of Tympany, it may arise from other causes. 



