468 ALPHABETICAL SUMMARY. 
Ruptured Stomach is characterized by excessive colic, followed by 
tympanitis. 
Introsusception possibly may he relieved by the inhalation of a full 
dose of chloroform; but the result is always uncertain. 
Invagination is attended with the greatest possible agony. 
Strangulation is not to be distinguished, during life, from invagina- 
tion. 
Calculus causes death by impactment; but however different the causes 
of abdominal injury may be, they each produce the greatest agony, which 
conceals the other symptoms, and makes all such injuries apparently the 
same while the life lasts. 
ACITES, OR DROPSY OF THE ABDOMEN. 
Cause.—Chronic peritonitis. 
Symptoms.—Pulse hard; head pendulous; food often spoiled; mem- 
branes pallid; mouth dry. Pressure to abdomen elicits a groan; turn- 
ing in the stall calls forth a grunt. Want of spirit; constant lying 
down; restlessness; thirst; loss of appetite; weakness; thinness; en- 
larged abdomen; constipation and hide-bound. Small bags depend 
from the chest and belly; the sheath and one leg sometimes enlarge; the 
mane breaks off; the tail drops out. Purgation and death. 
Treatment.—When the symptoms first appear give, night and morn- 
ing, strychnia, half a grain, worked up to one grain; iodide of iron, half 
a drachm, worked up to one drachm and a half; extract of belladonna, 
one scruple; extract of gentian and powdered quassia, of each a sufli- 
ciency; apply small blisters, in rapid succession, upon the abdomen: but 
if the effusion is confirmed, a cure is hopeless. 
ACUTE DYSENTERY. 
Cause.—Some acrid substance taken into the stomach. 
Symptoms.—Abdominal pain; violent purgation; the feces become 
discolored, and water fetid; intermittent pulse; haggard countenance; 
the position characterizes the seat of anguish. Perspiration, tympanitis, 
and death. 
Treatment.—Give sulphuric ether, one ounce; laudanum, three ounces; 
liquor potasse, half an ounce; powdered chalk, one ounce; tincture of 
catechu, one ounce; cold linseed tea, one pint. Repeat every fifteen 
minutes. Cleanse the quarters; plait the tail; inject cold linseed tea. 
The whole of the irritating substance must be expelled before improve- 
ment can take place. 
