INDEX 



Abdomen, surgical regions of, 6 

 Abdominal incision, position of, 

 in laparo-enterotomy, 177 

 organs, tabular arrangement 

 of, 15 

 Aloes and opium inadvisable in 

 intestinal impaction, 96, 102 

 in intestinal impaction, 96 

 Ammonium carbonate in intestinal 

 impaction, 98 

 hydrate in gastric tympany, 66 

 Anatomical predisposing causes of 



colic, 29, 30 

 Anatomy of the stomach, 8, 17 

 Antizymotics in gastric tympany, 

 67 

 intra-intestinal injection of, in 

 tympanites, 197 

 Auscultation, 25 



Bowel, incision and suture of, 179" 

 puncturing for intestinal tym- 

 pany. 193 



Bowels, inflammation of, 200 

 stoppage of, 80 



Calculus in small colon, 187 

 Cardiac sphincter, illustration of, 



17, 18, 19 

 Care in diagnosis, 21 

 Case of gastric tympany, 6g 

 Cases of subacute obstruction of 

 double colon, 108, 122 

 small intestines, 156, 157 

 Cause, exciting, of intestinal im- 

 paction, 93 



Cause of pain in intestinal impac- 

 tion, 93 

 Causes, anatomical predisposing, 

 of colic, 29, 30 

 of enteritis, 203 

 of gastric impaction, 48 



tympany, 54 

 of intestinal tympany, 189 

 of ruptured stomach, 73 

 of subacute obstruction of the 

 double colon, 82 

 pelvic flexure of the colon, 



124 

 single colon, 137 

 small intestines, 147 

 of superpurgation, 213 

 physiological predisposing, of 

 colic, 28, 31 

 Caution against use of sedatives, 

 31, 68, 102, 210 

 in gastric tympany, 68 

 Chloral hydrate in intestinal im- 

 paction, 103 

 in superpurgation, 216 

 Classification of equine colics 



(Friedberger's), 2 

 Colic, anatomical predisposing 

 causes of, 29, 30 

 caused by intestinal septic 



infection, 45, 203 

 comparison of human with 



equine, 4, 32 

 flatulent, 189 

 Friedberger's classification 



of, 2 

 its derivation, i 



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