1 (;4 The Farmer''s Veterinary Adviser. 



sitting on his haunches or lying on his back, and will 

 vetch, though vomiting is rare, unless the stomach is rupt- 

 uied. If the obstruction is in the pehic flexure of the 

 large bowels it may be felt by the hand introduced through 

 the rectum. 



In ruminants the preliminary colics may be followed by 

 quietude, but there remain extreme lassitude, depression, 

 sunken eye and dry hot muzzle, and even stupor or coma. 

 In cattle the hand introduced into the rectum will detect 

 the mass of the overdistended bowel above the obstruc- 

 tion. It may also ascertain the existence of a pouch im- 

 prisoning the gut in the right flank and may even puU it 

 out and relieve. 



In dogs violent cohc may be absent, but there is much 

 depression, inappetence, vomiting of bile or fasces, arch- 

 ing of the back, tucking up of the belly, the passage with 

 much pain and straining of mucus-covered fseces, and lat- 

 er, straining without any passage, while the overloaded 

 gut may easily be felt through the walls of the belly. 



Treatment. In most cases of absolute obstruction noth- 

 ing can be done except to reheve the pain by anodynes 

 (opium, belladonna, stramonium, Indian hemp, etc.,) and 

 leave to nature. Invagination, volvulus or gut-tie, when 

 their presence is ascertained in ruminants, pigs or dogs, 

 would warrant an incision through the walls of the abdo- 

 men and an attempt to rectify with the hand. In cattle 

 the opening must always be made in the right flank, the 

 left being occupied by the paunch. The wound must be 

 afterward carefully sewed up and the animal prevented 

 from rubbing it. Gut-tie may often be remedied by man- 

 ipulation with the hand in the rectum, or even by the sim- 

 pler expedient of jumping from a bank about two feet 

 high, though if due to adhesion of the cord to an intestine 

 the abdomen must be opened and the band cut. 



HEENIA. BUPTUBE. BUEST. 



Hernia is understood to mean the displacement of some 



