INDEX 



Laparo-enterotomy, preparation of 



materials required for, 157 

 Large intestine, 13 

 Lembert's sutures, 162 

 Liver, the, 14 



Materials required for the operation 

 of laparo-enterotomy, 156 



Methods of watering horses, 35 



Mode of inspection of patient in 

 colic, 18 



Morphia in superpurgation, 198 



New oats as cause of gastric tym- 

 pany, 51 



Nux vomica in intestinal impaction, 

 9S 



Oats, new, cause of gastric tympany, 



51 

 Obstruction, case of, treated by 



intestinal irrigation, 144, 151 

 Obstruction of small intestines, 

 cases of, 138, 139 

 causes of, 129 

 definition of, 129 

 diagnosis of, 134 

 prognosis of, 135 

 purging in, 131 

 rectal exploration in, 132 

 symptoms of, 130 

 treatment of, 135 

 Obstruction of the colon, intestinal 



irrigation in, 143 

 Obstruction, subacute, of double 

 colon, 76 

 causes of, 78 

 definition of, 76 

 diagnosis of, 82 

 prognosis of, 84 

 symptoms of, 79 

 treatment of, 85 

 Obstruction, subacute, of single 



colon, 119 

 Obstruction, subacute, of small 



intestines, 129 

 Obstructions, intestinal, surgical 



treatment of, 155 

 (Esophagus tube in gastric tympany, 

 68 



Operation of laparo-enterotomy, 1 59 

 Opium in superpurgation, 199 

 Opium and aloes in intestinal im- 

 paction, reasons against, 92, 98 

 Over-ripe grasses, danger in, 45 



Pain, cause of, in intestinal impac- 

 tion, 89 



Pancreas, the, 15 



Paralysis of rectum, 121, 125 



Passage of food through the diges- 

 tive canal of "horse, time occu- 

 pied in, 28 



Patient, mode of inspection of, 18 



Percussion in diagnosis, 24 



Peritoneum, the, 8 



Physiological predisposing causes of 

 colic, 25, 28 



Physostigmine in intestinal impac- 

 tion, 96, 126 



Position of abdominal incision in 

 laparo-enterotomy, 159 



Predisposing, anatomical, causes of 

 colic, 26, 27 

 physiological, causes of colic, 

 25, 28 



Preliminary inspection when diag- 

 nosing in young animals, 202 



Preparation of materials for opera- 

 tion of laparo-enterotomy, 157 



Prevention of ruptured stomach, 



75 

 Prognosis of enteritis, 190 

 of gastric impaction, 47 



tympany, 61 

 of intestinal tympany, 1 74 

 of ruptured stomach, 74 

 of subacute obstruction of 

 double colon, 84 

 of single colon, 125 

 small intestines, 135 

 of superpurgation, 198 

 Pulse, the, 21 

 Puncturing the bowel in intestinal 



tympany, 174 

 Purgative, aloetic, in intestinal im- 

 paction, 85, 92 

 Purging in subacute obstruction of 

 the small intestines, 131 



