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on such a train of distressing symptoms, but by sympathetic 
action. 
The treatment I should adopt is simple : emetic (per anum) so as 
to keep up constant nausea, and also the dashing of cold water 
along the spine every fifteen or twenty minutes. In the interim, I 
would wrap the patient in blankets. The reason for the above 
course is this : I conclude the body at the time to be labouring 
under great or positive excitement, and by the above treatment 
it would be reduced to the lesser or negative state : it is also 
calculated to bring on cutaneous perspiration, which is desirable 
under any opinion we may form of the disease. 
The Lancet . 
Ibstock, June 7, 1844. 
DISEASES OF THE INTESTINAL TUBE, WITH WOUNDS 
AND PERFORATIONS OF THE INTESTINE. 
By Professor Rey. 
These affections of the digestive canal are not very serious, nor 
have they been very numerous during this year ; but the different 
crops of grain were never before gathered in under circumstances 
more unfavourable. The frequent rains that occurred prevented 
every thing from growing to complete maturity. Nevertheless, we 
have not observed in the clinical department any cases of those in- 
digestions complicated with cerebral phenomena which are usually 
termed abdominal vertigo, or gastric encephalitis. This is, certainly, 
not due to any uniformity of temperature, for that has been very 
favourable. We should be rather inclined to attribute the rarity 
of this affection to the absence of any great degree of heat. 
We have, also, only observed a very few of those cases of com- 
mon enteritis which are so frequent in the spring, and which are 
usually complicated with diseases of the respiratory organs, and 
the mucous membranes in general. These affections, which usually 
appear under an epizootic form, were observable in the beginning 
of February, when the weather was prematurely hot, for they 
disappeared as soon as the cold wet weather set in. Towards the 
end of the summer we observed a few cases in horses, complicated 
with jaundice. 
If the parietes of the abdomen are wounded, the intestine, which 
in herbivorous animals occupies so large a bulb, is displaced, forms 
hernise, or is itself wounded, and fatal complication of disease does 
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