Impaction of the Cecum in 

 the Horse* 



By A. T. GiLYARD, D. V. M., Waterbury, Conn. 



The subject of Cecal Impaction is one upon which 

 there seems to have been little written. To the best of 

 my knowledge the first description of this condition was 

 written by Prof. Grofton, of the Royal (Dick) Veterinary 

 College, Edinburgh, and published in the May 11, 1913, 

 edition of The Veterinary Record-f In this article Prof. 

 Gofton gives a very fine and complete description of 

 four cases of subacute obstruction of the cecum, which 

 fully establishes that as a distinct form of colic of the 

 equine. 



The next literature on the subject is from the pen of 

 the well-known colic specialist, H. Caulton Reeks, F. R. 

 C. V. S., and was published in January, 1913. In this 

 paper the subject is dealt with in that most thorough and 

 comprehensive manner, characteristic of all of the valu- 

 able writings of Mr. Reeks, on the common colics of the 

 horse. Mr. Reeks describes one additional case of this 

 trouble and advances some very plausible theories. 



I have met with two cases of impaction of the cecum 

 in the horse. Strange to say, these two cases of this ap- 



*Read at semi-annual meeting of the Connecticut Veterinary Medical 

 Association, Waterbury, August, 1913. 



tlmpaction of the cecum in the horse was first described and reported 

 by D. M. Campbell in Octobei-, 1908, in the American Journal of Veterinary 

 Medicine. The next report of this condition was made by Prof. Grofton, 

 as mentioned above. Casies of cecal impaction have since been reported 

 by Messrs. McLaren, Hanay, SpreuU, Brown and Reeks, all of England.— 

 Editor. 



