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provoked by indigestion of food and drink, which, distending the 

 stomach, caused pressure on the body and consequent irritation of 

 the ramifications of the pneumogastric and celiac plexus. Labat 

 opened the abdomen of a Dane twenty-four hours after it had 

 swallowed a kidney together with a skewer eleven inches long, 

 which was sticking in it. The skewer was found partly free in 

 the peritoneal cavity. Recovery ensued. 



Symptoms and Diagnosis. In some cases there is complete 

 absence of any symptoms, but usually there is intense thirst, an- 

 orexia and persistent vomiting, together with hematemesis when 

 erosion of the mucosa exists. During movements sharp bodies 

 may prick the wall, causing sudden cries of pain. The animal 

 prostrates itself, or walks with arched back. On other occasions 

 there are fits of coughing, colic, restlessness, epileptiform, and even 

 rabiform symptoms. In this country I have found the practice of 

 feeding peanuts a fruitful source of violent seizure. Descotes 

 witnessed rabiform symptoms in a case of impaction by raw carrots. 

 Pressure over the gastric region is usually productive of pain. 

 When any doubt exists, the Roentgen rays should be employed. , 



Treatment. Emetics, such as apomorphia, hypodermically ad- 

 ministered, should first be tried when the character of the body 

 is known for a certainty! Emesis is contraindicated when sharp or 

 pointed bodies are known to be the cause of the trouble. Delivery 

 should then be accomplished by the operation of gastrotomy. 

 Venneholm delivered the fibula of a horse from the stomach of a 

 large dog by this operation, and Porcher and Morey removed a 

 spoon, only the handle of which had reached the stomach, the 

 other extremity being still in the esophagus. At the Munich School 

 in 1877 a leaden ball measuring some two inches in diameter and 

 weighing some nine ounces was successfully removed. 



NEOPLASMS. 



Neoplasms of the stomach occur with great rarity. Carcinoma 

 of the pylorus has been recorded, as has multiple Sarcoma of the 

 organ. Kitt refers to verrucose Adenoma. Vogel has observed 

 fatal termination from hemorrhage. Non-malignant cicatricial 

 Stricture occasionally results from pyloric ulcer or by wounding 

 induced by some foreign body. 



Symptoms and Diagnosis. Chronic vomiting, accompanied by 



