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or cloths wrung out of hot water, throw up injections, and order 
the animal as much gruel as he will take. 
While the walls of the stomach are so distended, there is no 
danger of inflammation ; should there be any cerebral symptoms, 
such as heaviness of the head, leaning the head on the manager, or 
thrusting it against the wall, to the other treatment a good free 
bleeding should be added. If the disease takes its tympanitic, or 
gaseous form, the caecum or colon is its usual seat, the cures for it 
are innumerable ; every quack has his own infallible specific, and 
most veterinarians have a remedy, which they think nearly a certain 
cure ; but although many cases, no doubt, are cured, still it is beyond 
doubt many die, and from gaseous distension alone, without a 
particle of inflammation. 
Like the previous case I have dealt with, where the stomach is 
distended with food, expulsion is the object we have to attain. To 
have the bowels distended with gas, we must have fermentation, 
and to have fermentation, there must be a mass of imperfectly 
digested matter in the gut. All agree in giving the most powerful 
stimulants, and there are few who don’t think it necessary to com- 
bine them with some active cathartic — of course the dose of cathartic 
medicine must be regulated according to the size and strength of 
the animal — from four to eight drachms of aloes ; the horse may be 
walked about a little, but avoid forcing him to trot, and don’t con- 
tinue in the walking very long. 
If the case has been a serious one care should be taken not to 
allow the horse to work too soon, and his diet should be simply 
slop. In despite of all treatment, however sound both in theory 
and practice, our case will sometimes go on until the poor animal 
seems on the point of bursting. 
I have heard of some veterinarians using the trochar, or punc- 
turing the caecum, but never having tried it myself I cannot speak 
of the desirability of such an operation. 
Gentlemen, — I have now concluded my short paper. However 
imperfect and uninstructive it may be, 1 feel confident that some 
useful information will be derived from the discussion that may 
follow. 
During a general discussion which followed the reading of Mr. 
Leather’s paper, several points of professional interest were touched 
upon, amongst others, crib-biting as a cause or effect of dyspepsia, 
the rationale of vomition when it occurs in the horse, vomition as a 
symptom of ruptured stomach, the use and action of purgatives in 
the treatment of bowel affections, the treatment of intestinal diseases 
by the internal administration of turpentine, also by the subcuta- 
neous injection of preparations of morphia. 
Mr. John Smith , of Ormskirk, exhibited morbid parts from two 
cases that had occurred in his practice; the first was the pulmonary 
viscera of a cow, the lungs of \U)ich were found to be slightly tuber- 
culous ; the muscular structure of the heart, which, very pale, soft, 
and much diminished in quantity, was surrounded by and incorpo* 
