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the gut ; but there is always considerable difficulty to get 

 it to be retained. So soon as it is restored to its situ- 

 ation, a human stomach pump should be inserted up the 

 rectum, and a full stream of the coldest spring water 

 should be thrown into the bowel for ten minutes. The 

 fluid will be returned so fast as it enters, and it must be 

 allowed to do so, the fingers of one hand being employed 

 against the anus to prevent the disordered rectum being 

 ejected with the water. Cold injection in less quantity 

 must be administered several times during the day, and 

 with each a little of the tincture of galls, or of nux 

 vomica, in the proportion of a drachm to a pint, may be 

 united. The ointment recommended for piles may also 

 be employed, but without opium, for no application of a 

 sedative nature must be used. The constitutional mea- 

 sures will consist of tonics into which nux vomica enters. 

 The food must be light and nourishing, and purgatives 

 on no account must be administered. Cold will do good 

 by invigorating the system, and should always be recom- 

 mended. Some persons, unable by sedatives and purga- 

 tives, which are injurious, to obtain relief, have gone so 

 far as to cut off the projecting bowel, and they have 

 thereby certainly ended the case ; for the dog dies when- 

 ever this is done. I remember at the Veterinary Col- 

 lege, Professor Simonds killed a fine animal by attempt- 

 ing this operation ; for he took a heated spatula to 

 remove the part, and carried the incision so high up that 

 he opened the abdomen, and the bowels protruded from 

 the anus. Amputation of any portion of the rectum is 



