LACERATION OF THE INTESTINE IN CARNIVORA. 



Obstruction and overdistension, necrosis, ulceration, feculent impaction, 

 kicks, parasites, caustics, abscess, tubercle, cancer. Symptoms : peritoni- 

 tis following accident, vomiting, no defecation. Treatment : laparotomy. 



The most common cause of intestinal rupture is obstruction by 

 foreign bodies, with overdistension of the bowel immediately in 

 front, or necrosis and ulceration of the portion of the bowel, 

 pressed upon. Feculent impaction acts in a similar way. Kicks 

 and other external injuries sustained on a full intestine will lead 

 to rupture. Perforation by parasites, by caustic agents swal- 

 lowed, by abscesses, and by tubercle or cancer is also to be met 

 with. 



The symptoms are those of sudden peritonitis, with marked ab- 

 dominal tenderness, tucking up of the abdomen, bringing the 

 legs together under the body, vomiting, suspension of defecation 

 and peristalsis. Rabiform symptoms have been noted. 



Treatment. As in swine there is every hope of success by 

 suture of the intestinal wound if done early. The same general 

 method may be followed as in closing the wound after extraction 

 of a foreign body. 



ABSCESS OF THE BOWEL IN SOEIPEDS. 



In strangles, from puncture, kicks, blows, foreign bodies in food, larva, 

 cysts, large or small, creamy or cheesy, open into bowel or peritoneum, in- 

 fective peritonitis Symptoms : rigor, ill health, unthrift, colics, tender ab- 

 domen, tympany, painful movements, lying, rising, turning, going down- 

 hill, rectal exploration, phlegmonous swelling, pus passed by anus. Treat- 

 ment : open when it points on abdominal wall, or when near rectum, anti- 

 septics, support strength, careful dieting, antipurulent agents. 



This is most common as an irregular form of strangles, the ab- 

 scess forming in connection with the mesenteric glands or on the 

 walls of the intestine. Small abscesses may also implicate the 

 mucous glands or Peyer's patches as a result of catarrhal enteritis. 

 Less frequently an abscess forms in the seat of the puncture of 

 the colon for tympany, or in connection with blows, kicks, punc- 

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