CHAPTER V. 



DISEASES OF THE INTESTINE, LIVEK, AND PANCREAS. 



Intestinal parasites in the horse, ox, sheep, pig, and dog. Constipation in 

 foals. Colic. Causes, viz., physical and vital. Symptoms. Complicated 

 varieties. Post-mortem appearances. Treatment. The common prac- 

 tices condemned. Mr Joseph Gaingee Senior's plan Its certainty and 

 safety. Results. Ruptured stomach. Ruptured colon. Ruptured rec- 

 tum. Volvulus or ileus. Intussusception of the small and of the large 

 intestine. Mr Percivall on intussusception. Pathological anatomy of the 

 lesion. Obstructions by tumours. Ligatures of the intestine by pedun- 

 culated growths. Enteritis. Exudative enteritis. Peritonitis. Dysen- 

 tery. Enzootic dysentery. Darn or wood evil. Diarrhoea. White 

 scour in lambs and calves. Dilatation of rectum. Imperf orate anus. 

 Fistula in ano. Prolapsus ani. Proctorrhcea. Haemorrhoids. Hernia. 

 Umbilical Inguinal Scrotal Ventral Mesenteric. Guttie in cattle- 

 Phrenic and omental herniae. Diseases of the liver. Jaundice. Hae- 

 patirrhcea. Hepatitis. Biliary calculi. Parasitic diseases. Pancreas. 

 Functional and structural disorders. Pancreatic calculi. 



INTESTINAL PAEASITES. 



THEKE is a marked difference in our domestic animals as to 

 the kinds of worm which give rise to unpleasant symptoms, 

 and call for medical interference. In the horse, we rarely 

 observe any form of tapeworm to be troublesome, and the 

 parasites usually noticed are the bots when discharged in 

 spring, the large round worm so often and very improperly 

 called lumbricus, and which is the ascaris megalocephala, and 

 the so-called needleworm, which is the strongylus armatus. 



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