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duller, the mouth becomes clammy, the breath perhaps fetid, until at length 

 he can hold out no longer, and death puts an end to his suffering. 



The mortality in enteritis varies from 45 to 65 per cent. If, as happens 

 in some rare instances, the acute symptoms abate after the lapse of a few 

 hours, and the pulse regains in some degree its normal character, becoming 

 fuller, softer, and slower, there is great hope of recovery. 



In the form of enteritis, which we spoke of as apoplectic, the appearances 

 found at the autopsy are very marked and characteristic. The lining 

 membrane of the affected section of the gut is intensely congested, being of 

 a deep purple or even black colour, and in many instances much blood is 

 effused into the intestinal canal. The lining membrane is also much 

 thickened, and can easily be separated from its connections with the 

 underlying coats of the gut. The other coats are also intensely infiltrated 

 with blood-stained effusion. In some cases so extensive is the infiltration 

 and thickening, and so intense is the inflammatory process, that the tissue 

 just outside the lining membrane appears as a dark purple or black gelatinous 

 mass two inches or more in thickness, extending for varying lengths of the 

 gut, and sometimes involving many feet of the intestinal tract." 



It is noteworthy that even though the amount of effusion into the gut be 

 very great, and the contents themselves be fluid, the bowels usually remain 

 inactive, owing to paralysis of the muscular coats. In other forms of 

 enteritis the inflammatory process is not of this marked character : the 

 inflammation is usually more patchy in distribution. Inflammation of the 

 bowels requires all the care and attention of the high-class veterinary 

 surgeon. 



In cases of enteritis, a drench containing seven minims of Fleming's 

 tincture of aconite, two drachms of chloroform, one ounce of sulphuric ether,, 

 and one ounce of tincture of opium, given in a pint of gruel or water is an 

 efficacious mixture. It may be repeated at first every two hours for four or 

 five times, and then every four hours, so long as the pain lasts. It is of 

 primary importance in all cases of inflammation of the bowels to control the 



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pain by the administration of such anodynes as these mentioned, for the 

 continual struggles of the animal often lead to rupture of the gut, which is 

 necessarily followed by death. Belladonna is not of much value in the 



