278 STRANGULATION OF THE INTESTINE. 



ual operation ; but this is not safe or practicable in the horse. 

 It has been done in the ox, and even in the human subject. 

 If cases of colic are well treated at the commencement, in- 

 tussusception is usually prevented. 



STEANGULATION OF THE INTESTINE BY PEDUNCULATED 

 TUMOES, OE HYPEETEOPHIED APPENDICES EPIPLOICLE. 



Not a few cases have been recorded, in which the ileum 

 has been found tied by the long neck or peduncle of a fatty 

 tumour. The growth is always an enlarged epiploic appen- 

 dix. I here reproduce a drawing from the first volume of the 

 Veterinarian. 



3 Mesenteric Chord. 

 3 



1 Tumour. 



2 Mesentery lining 

 the interspaces. 



Fig. 104. 



The specimen was taken from a black horse upwards of 

 twenty years of age, which was suddenly seized with an 

 attack of 'gripes/ 



Mr Percivall, in describing the post-mortem examination, 

 says: "Considerable serous effusion (about 3 or 4 gals.) into 

 the abdominal cavity. About a foot in length of the ileum 

 formed duplicature, strangulated, by being included and 

 tightly strictured within a fold of an elongated portion of 

 mesentery, from which grew by a neck, a fatty tumour, as 



