14 EXAMINATION, HOW CONDUCTED. [BOOK I. 



liament, Anno 1800, which caught ourselves in its 

 trammels at our very earliest essay. The next cut in 

 the same line permits the gut to protrude, wrapped 

 in its peritonaeum, which membranous film soon 

 bursts, and the caecum and colon press upon our 

 notice. Ascertain the contents of the former, 

 which is as large as the stomach, and lies rather to 

 the left side, and observe the passages into and out 

 of this repository of water, &c. Look to the latter, 

 and by its colour judge if the horse has been carried 

 off by inflammation of that part, by jaundice or 

 otherwise. This conceals all the other intestines, 



(except the straight 

 gut) by a convo- 

 lution, in this wise : 



Upon removing those large guts, let him 

 examine with minuteness the junction of these 

 with one another, which act as so many con- 

 strictions, to prevent the -too ready escape of 

 their contents. In the case of suspected inflam- 

 mation, the conjunction of the large gut with the 

 straight gut, or rectum, should attract his notice ; as 

 should that of the smallest gut, or duodenum, with 

 the stomach, in every case, and the entry into it of 

 the gall duct, from the liver, which conveys the bile 

 into the intestines. In all cases of death through 

 protracted illness, all of fever, however rapid, all of 

 acute inflammation, he will discern the effects these 

 have had upon this secretion of bile by the liver ; 

 whether too much or too little, whether thickened 

 and obstructed, or not produced at all, as in " the 



