188 DADD'S VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY 
TYMPANICIS (BELLY FILLED WITH Gas). 
Case in Mustration—At midnight, June 16, 1865, I was callec 
upon to visit a horse afflicted with this disease. On arriving at 
the stable, I found the animal on the floor, apparently in great 
agony. The abdomen was distended with gas »o an immense 
capacity ; the pulse was feeble; respirations accelerated, and very 
laborious ; body was bedewed with a cold, clammy perspiration, 
tips of the ears, cold; extremities in a similar condition. Eruc- 
tations of gas from the stomach, by the way of the mouth, were 
constantly occurring, indicating that the stomach, as well as the 
intestines, were occupied with gas. The animal had bruised nim 
self very badly in struggling, and extensive abrasion of the skin 
had taken place in various parts of the body. I was informed 
that the horse had just returned from a very long journey, an 
had not tasted food for sixteen hours. On arriving at the stable, 
where I found him, a bountiful supply was placed before him. In 
his weak and exhausted condition, this was about the worst that 
could have been done; for the stomach and digestive organs, 
sharing, either by direct sympathy or otherwise, with other parte 
of the body, were not in a fit state, until a period of rest had oc- 
curred, to digest even a small quantity of food. The cravings of 
hunger, or a morbid appetite, induced the animal to devour most, 
if not all, of what was placed before him. The consequence was, 
the food, instead of undergoing digestion, ran into fermentation, 
and generated gas known as sulphureted hydrogen. 
Treatment.—The animal was urged to rise. I then gave him a 
colic drench, composed of two ounces of fluid extract of golden 
seal, and one ounce of hyposulphite of soda. The surface of the 
body was then rubbed with wisps of straw, which produced some 
reaction, so that the surface of the patient became warmer. Oc- 
casionally the animal was led about for a short distance, and then 
was led back again to the stall, where he would get down, and roll 
and tumble about, as if in great agony. I administered enemas 
of soap-suds and salt, but did not succeed in bringing away either 
feces or gas, and all the gas which escaped from the alimentary 
cavity passed by the mouth. Two hours after the administration 
of the first dose, finding that the animal was still unrelieved, I 
repeated the dose of colic drench, and threw soap-suds intu the 
rectum. Soon after some feces were v‘.. ‘led, and with them quan. 
