THE STOMACH AND INTESTINES 



on either a canine or feline patient. The lethal chamber 

 would be a more humane and preferable termination. 



The case illustrated in Fig. 138 was that of a mastiiif, aged about twelve 

 years, whose history was that the appetite and general health had been 

 variable and the bowels irregular for about two months. When brought 

 under treatment the temperature was 103° F., pulse 146, the extremities 

 Omentum Abscess 



Ulcer Pancreas 



Fig. 138. — A Case Of Perityphlitis and Ulceration of the Bowel. ^ 



The upper specimen is the ileo-csecal region, the lower specimen is a 

 portion of duodenum. 



cold, and all the symptoms of general collapse. Vomition had occurred 

 several times, but no tenderness of the abdomen was discoverable by 

 external manipulation. Coma set in, and death occurred about thirty-si>c 

 hours afterwards, a post-mortem examination revealing extensive peri- 

 typhlitis with ulcers in the duodenum and ileum, in the latter of which 

 one had perforated, thus allowing the intestinal contents to escape into 

 the abdominal cavity.^ 



Typhlitis is, however, tolerably frequently met with, 

 the Symptoms shown being those of acute abdominal pain, 



^ Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeitties, vol. xviii., p. 75 

 (G. H. Livesey). 



