ULCERATED INTESTINE. 
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operated on young animals, such as pigs, lambs, and puppies, 
with impunity. 
As recently as the 4th of July last, I was called to some 
eight miles’ distance from my place to see a mare who was 
suffering from prolapsus, and had been so for two or three 
days previous. She was a very fine brood mare, with a foal 
at her foot, and was running at grass. No particular cause 
could be assigned for it. 
Frequent attempts had been made to reduce and retain the 
gut, to no purpose, by the owner and others. I found the 
protruding gut considerably congested and discoloured, and 
the mare evincing uneasiness and pain, straining to rid 
herself of the accumulated faeces ; and in her efforts, a pellet 
would now and then be shot out as from a pop gun. 
I washed the parts with water, and removed a large quantity 
of dung with my hand, emptying as well as I could the rec- 
tum. I reduced the prolapsus but could not retain it : I made 
repeated efforts, but as soon as I withdrew my hand, the pains 
would come on, and out again would be forced the mass. 
I remained a considerable time, until I had exhausted all 
my patience ; when, at length, the owner consented to the 
operation which I had before proposed. I did not cast 
the mare, but merely put on a side line, and had one leg held 
up, and the tail kept on one side. I took a scalpel and ex- 
cised the parts level with the sphincter. Not much haemorrhage 
followed ; I should think altogether not more than a quart. 
The mare appeared immediately afterwards much relieved. 
The straining ceased, and she was eager for food. I gave a 
laxative, and ordered her nothing but a little mash and grass. 
Everything went on well until the third day, when I found 
her uneasy and straining a little. She had been allowed to eat 
too much, and a quantity of faeces had again accumulated in 
the rectum. I removed them, and strictly enjoined abstinence 
from food, and to have occasional clysters of warm water. 
From this time nothing more was done. She gradually re- 
turned to her usual diet, and in a few days was quite restored. 
ULCERATED INTESTINE. By the same. 
I have just seen the fatal termination of another unusual 
case. The subject was an aged farm horse, blind, of coarse 
formation, and black colour. He was observed to be unwell 
a day or two previous to my seeing him, which was for the 
first time on the 25th of July. He was now looking un- 
healthy in his coat ; very much tucked up in the flanks ; 
