1 84 DAI'D'S VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGER* 



No. 20 Fluid extract of ginger 1 oz. 



Fluid extract of golden seal 2 oz. 



Hyposulphite of soda 2 drachms. 



Water 4 oz. 



After the exhibition of the above, I threw into the rectum a 

 couple of qwarts of soap-suds, to which was added a handful of 

 salt. In the course of about an hour the animal api eared to be 

 somewhat relieved, and passed a large quantity of cats, whole. 

 I repeated the dose ; also the enema. The patient very soon after- 

 ward passed a large quantity of excrement, mixed with oats, and 

 so rapidly improved that I left him, and did not see him until the 

 next morning, when he appeared to have entirely recovered. 

 With the exception of a bran-mash or two, the above comprises 

 the whole of the treatment. 



It was lucky for the horse as well as the parties concerned that 

 the animal did not get corn instead of oats ; for the same quantity 

 of corn would have surely caused death, from the fact that when this 

 article of fodder is submitted, within the stomach, to the action of 

 heat and moisture, it increases in bulk in a ratio of about five to 

 one, and the usual result is rupture of the stomach. Still, should 

 any of our readers be called upon to treat a case of the latter kind, 

 there is no other plan of treatment with which 1 am acquainted 

 that will be likely to succeed in saving the animal than the one 

 here indicated. 



Another case. — The patient, a gray gelding, aged about eight 

 years, the property of Messrs. Wright & Bros., of Chicago, had 

 performed an ordinary day's work without showing any symptoms 

 of ill-health. About five o'clock in the evening he was unhar- 

 nessed and put up for the night. In a few minutes it was noticed 

 that he began to bloat, and that the abdomen increased in size very 

 rapidly. A messenger was immediately dispatched for me. On 

 arriving at the stable, I found the animal in a very dangerous con- 

 dition. The abdomen was enormously distended, and an eructation 

 of gas from the stomach, by the mouth, was continually occurring. 

 The respirations were laborious and accelerated, and very much 

 quickened ; pulse, very indistinct ; extremities and surface of the 

 body, quite chilly ; rectum, protruding ; and the animal was very 

 uneasy, and appeared to suffer much pain. Occasionally he would 

 get down and make desperate efforts to roll on his back, yet ha 

 did not succeed, for he was round as a barrel : and when he <. old 



