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STRICTURE OF THE RECTUM, &C. IN A MARE. 
having her nose and eyes and face sponged with water cold from 
the pump in order to refresh her, she began straining afresh through 
her rectum, trying to void more dung, and while so doing had an- 
other staggering fit, and fell backwards against the door. In a 
minute, however, she was up again, and apparently had recovered 
her strength once more. She then lay down, but speedily rose 
again and commenced blowing, manifesting altogether more un- 
easiness than she had done even from the commencement. 
Four o'clock, A. M. — From this time I ordered the calomel ball 
to be given every five hours (instead of every six), considering 
her in most imminent danger. 
Nine o'clock . — She has, after experiencing a great deal of pain 
or uneasiness, become once again comparatively tranquil. She 
has lain quiet for an hour upon her near side. As soon as she 
rises repeat the mustard embrocation to her belly. 
Seven o'clock, p M. — She has not been in any violent pain dur- 
ing the day : she is nothing better for it, however, this evening. 
The disease is evidently going on, and will, unless we can get her 
bowels to act freely, for certain prove the death of her. Repeat 
the mustard embrocation to her belly, and let her have another sim- 
ple enema. The injection brought away another ball of dung or 
two, but there is no sign of purgation. As she has refused all 
solid food, some cold gruel has been made for her, and of this she 
sparingly drinks. 
Nov. \lth . — She has passed the night in comparative quietude, 
not having experienced any paroxysm of pain until seven o’clock 
this morning, when she was seized afresh with “ blowing” and 
other symptoms of pain, lying down and rising, and looking back 
and groaning, & c. At length she lay down against the boarded 
skirting of the box, made two or three ineffectual efforts to rise, 
and, at last, rather suddenly, stretched herself out, and, without 
any struggling, expired. 
ON EXAMINATION OF HER BODY, three hours after 
death, the following disclosures were made : — 
STOMACH full of liquid matters, scenting strongly of the anti- 
spasmodic medicine that had been given, with the villous coat 
intensely reddened, and covered with mucous secretion. 
INTESTINES: — duodenum, like the stomach, highly reddened, 
shewing signs of inflammation externally as well as internally, but 
which disappeared upon the jejunum. 
Both jejunum and ileum, but the latter most, marked by the 
contractions (with intervals of distended gut between them) which 
spasms ordinarily occasion ; shewing that, so far as they are con- 
cerned, the case was one of common colic. Ccecum and flexures 
