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CALCULI IN THE INTESTINES. 
By C. PERCIVALL, Esq., Royal Artillery. 
The horse that was the subject of this paper, prior to admission 
into the infirmary, had for two or three days, off and on, expe- 
rienced paroxysms of pain in no very distinguishable form, and 
spasmodic colic, and for this the usual remedies afforded tempo- 
rary relief. However, at length, it became too apparent — from the 
restless state of the animal and concomitant symptoms — that there 
was something radically wrong within the cavity of the abdomen, 
and I accordingly had him removed to this place. 
There was a small quick pulse, the horse panting and blowing ex- 
pressive of great pain — frequently looking round to his flank — paw- 
ing and stamping with his fore feet, and advancing them forwards — 
standing on the stretch — frequently lying down and rolling upon 
his back, and remaining in that position with his feet in the air 
for several minutes together — with constipation of the bowels. 
He was bled, had stimulating embrocations to the surface of the 
abdomen, took aloes, had aloetic enemas, &c., administered, but 
without any mitigation of the symptoms, or procuring a passage ; 
and he died on the morning of the 7th instant, in great pain. 
Post-mortem examination . — The csecum and colon were both 
inflamed, the latter being greatly distended from an accumulation 
of dry faeces, embedded in which, at the small curvature, was a 
calculus measuring seventeen inches in circumference, and weigh- 
ing two pounds and three-quarters. The surface of this was 
irregular, very similar to the rock melon. In addition to this, 
there was a considerable quantity of extraneous matter, consisting 
of a black gravelly substance. The formation of the calculus, there 
is no doubt, was owing to a depraved appetite, having from time 
to time swallowed a considerable quantity of earthy matter and 
gravel, when employed in the arsenal in removing stores, &c., for 
that which was taken from the colon, when washed, exactly re- 
sembled the surface of the ground contiguous to the storehouses, 
where the horses (in the Queen’s works) are employed. 
