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duller, the mouth becomes clammy, the breath perhaps fetid, until at length 
he can hold out no longer, and death puts an end to his suffering. 
The mortality in enteritis varies from 45 to 65 per cent. If, as happens 
in some rare instances, the acute symptoms abate after the lapse of a few 
hours, and the pulse regains in some degree its normal character, becoming 
fuller, softer, and slower, there is great hope of recovery. 
In the form of enteritis, which we spoke of as apoplectic, the appearances 
- found at the autopsy are very marked and characteristic. The lining 
membrane of the affected section of the gut is intensely congested, being of 
a deep purple or even black colour, and in many instances much blood is 
effused into the intestinal canal. The lining membrane is also much 
thickened, and can easily be separated from its connections with the 
underlying coats of the gut. The other coats are also intensely infiltrated 
with blood-stained effusion. In some cases so extensive is the infiltration 
and thickening, and so intense is the inflammatory process, that the tissue 
just outside the lining membrane appears as a dark purple or black gelatinous 
mass two inches or more in thickness, extending for varying lengths of the 
gut, and sometimes involving many feet of the intestinal tract. 
"It is noteworthy that even though the amount of effusion into the gut be 
very great, and the contents themselves be fluid, the bowels usually remain 
inactive, owing to paralysis of the muscular coats. In other forms of 
enteritis the inflammatory- process is not of this marked character: the 
inflammation is usually more patchy in distribution. Inflammation of the 
bowels requires all the care and attention of the high-class veterinary 
surgeon. ; 
K In cases of enteritis, a drench containing seven minims of Fleming's 
tincture of aconite, two drachnis of « chloroform, one ounce > of ‘sulphuric ether, 
“and one ounce of tincture of 0; opium, given in a pint of gruel or water is an 
efficacious mixture. It may y be repeated a at first every two hours for four or 
five times, and then _every four hours, 50 long. as. ‘the pain lasts. It is of 
primary importance in all cases of inflammation of ihe bowels to control the: 
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pain by the administration of such anodynes as these mentioned, for the 
_ continual struggles of the animal often lead to rupture of the gut, which is 
necessarily followed by death. Belladonna is not of much value in the 
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