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lookers on, who considered the non-staling the essentially 
bad feature of the case. 
The animal again showed slight twitching pains ; he laid 
down, and stretching himself at full length, discharged much 
flatus per anum, and then remained quiet. He continued 
prostrate, resting himself for nearly an hour, when he got up 
perfectly recovered. 
I had the horse quietly dressed with linen rubbers ; gave 
him a pailful of warm water with a quartern of fresh bran in 
it ; he eagerly drank the former and ate the latter, and stay- 
ing there until ten o’clock, left him, being assured that he 
was completely relieved. 
The five cases just related, to which many more might be 
added, clearly prove, I think, that sometimes clysters alone, and 
mostly clysters and purgatives, fulfil our requirements in spas- 
modic colic in the horse. I do not mean thoroughly to discard 
the simple collateral means which I have adopted in my practice, 
but what had to be proved was the true effect of aloes and 
injections alone, so far outweighing in worth, in fact, com- 
pletely doing away with aromatics and other specifics. In 
the estimation of some, opium is the sheet-anchor, in union 
w r ith aloes in solution, spices, and other stimulants. Should 
some of my readers think the cases recited are exceptions to 
the rule, they may alter their opinion when I tell them that 
during my long-continued and extensive practice, the only' 
animal I ever lost after true colic was Case 3, which I have 
expressly cited, the animal being killed through the impru- 
dence of an unfeeling owner, just as he might have been 
under the operation of an ordinary purgative in health. To 
those who extol opium, which to the knowledge of all checks, 
instead of favouring the evacuation of the intestines, I should 
recommend the careful observation of the sedative and reliev- 
ing effects of aloes manifested promptly and successfully as 
they invariably are. 
16, Upper Woburn Place. 
A CASE OF RUPTURE OF THE COATS OF THE 
RECTUM. 
By W. T. Stanley, M.R.C.V.S., Leamington. 
I was requested, on the loth November last, to attend a 
hunter that had been suddenly seized with illness, the pro- 
