STRANGULATION OF THE INTESTINE BY THE 

 OVARIAN LIGAMENT IN SOUPEDS. 



Pediculated ovary in mare. Strangulation. Diagnosis by rectal explora- 

 tion. Castration. 



In most healthy animals the ovary is light and its situation in 

 the anterior border of the broad ligament is so firm that it is im- 

 possible for it to enwrap and constrict the intestines. In the 

 mare, however, the healthy ovary may be almost as large as 

 the closed fist, and when further enlarged by cystic or other 

 degeneration, it drags upon and enters the ligament until that 

 may form a long pedicle which can easily be wound round the 

 floating colon or small intestine. 



Diagnosis of this trouble can often be satisfactorily made by 

 rectal exploration, and treatment will consist in the removal of 

 the offending body by castration through an incision made in 

 the anterior part of the roof of the vagina close behind the os 

 uteri. 



PERITONITIS. 



Acute : Chronic ; general ; local ; idiopathic ; traumatic ; surgical ; acci- 

 dental ; perforation ; strangulation ; cachexia ; microbian almost always ; 

 aseptic foreign bodies escape into bowel : Castration ; gastric or intestinal 

 rupture or ulcer, enteritis, obstructions, cold storms, draughts, chills, all 

 lower resisting power of tissue ; generalization through peritoneal serum. 

 Nou-infective peritonitis from chemical irritants. Paves the way for mi- 

 crobes of ingesta. Rheumatic peritonitis, tuberculous, actinomycotic, mi- 

 crobes differ. 



All inflammations of the peritoneum go under this general 

 name. At the same time clinical and pathological distinctions 

 have been made with the view of distinguishing more precisely 

 different classes of cases. Thus it is ascribed as acute and 

 chronic, general and local, idiopathic and traumatic, surgical, 

 accidental, or by perforation, by strangulation and by cachexia. 



The advance of bacteriology has greatly simplified our views 

 of the disease, as microbes are found to be at work in practically 

 all cases. If we could exclude microbes from this membrane. 

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