184 DADD'S VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 
No. 20 Fluid extract of ginger.......-..+-- 1 os. 
Fluid extract of gclden seal........ 2 oz. 
Hyposulphite of soda........seeees 2 drachme. 
Water. ..ceees cee sceecceereees eee 4 02. 
After the exhibition of the above, I threw into the rectum 1 
vouple of quarts of soap-suds, to which was added a handful of 
salt. In the course of about an hour the animal appeared to bv 
somewhat relieved, and passed a large quantity of cats, whole 
I repeated the dose; also the enema. The patient very soon after- 
ward passed a large quantity of excrement, mixed with oats, and 
so rapidly improved that I left him, and did not see him until the 
aext morning, when he appeared to have entirely recovered. 
With the exception of a bran-mash or two, the above comprises 
the whole of the treatment. 
It was lucky for the horse as well as the parties concerned that 
the animal did not get corn instead of oats; for the same quantity 
of corn would have surely caused death, from tue fact that when this 
article of fodder is submitted, within the stomach, to the action of 
heat and moisture, it increases in bulk in a ratio of about five ta 
one, and the usual result is rupture of the stomach. Still, should 
any of our readers be called upon to treat a case of the latter kind, 
there is no other plan of treatment with which ] am acquainted 
that will be likely to succeed in saving the animal than the one 
here indicated. 
Another case-—The patient, a gray gelding, aged about eight 
years, the property of Messrs. Wright & Bros., of Chicago, had 
performed an ordinary day’s work without showing any symptoms 
of ill-health. About five o’clock in the evening he was unhar- 
nessed and put up for the night. In a few minutes it was noticed 
that he began to bioat, and that the abdumen increased in size very 
rapidly. A messenger was immediately dispatched fur me. Cn 
arriving at the stable, I found the animal in a very dangerous con- 
dition. The abdomen was enormously distended, and an eructation 
of gas from the stomach, by the mouth, was ccntinually occurring. 
The respirations were laborious and accelerated, and very much 
quickened ; pulse, very indistinct; extremities and surface of the 
body, quite chilly; rectum, protruding ; and the animal was very 
uneasy, and appeared tc suffer much pain. Occasionally he would 
get down and make desperate efforts to roll on his back, yet na 
did not succeed, for he was round as a barrel; an? when he c’ ald 
