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has no appetite. The treatment of yesterday is continued. On 
the 14th, the same state persists till three p.m., when the 
horse is immoveably standing, unconscious of what is going 
on around. The horse’s countenance is haggard, the nostrils 
expanded, eyes prominent, and conjunctivse livid and con- 
gested. The pulse is scarcely perceptible, though the artery 
be tense. There is a general tremitus of the body ; the 
general temperature is increased; the penis hangs out of its 
sheath ; the urine is voided in but very small quantities. 
The loins are insensible to pressure . The animal looks round at 
his flanks ; he moans occasionally. The muscles of the 
abdomen are tense, inducing great impediment to breathing. 
Every now and then the horse bends, as if to lie down, but 
instinctively retains the erect posture. 
The treatment on this day, the 14th, consists in the exhi- 
bition, in the shape of clysters, of about six ounces of the 
expressed oil of the poppy seed. The whole is rejected ; the 
horse is back-raked but the rectum found empty ; the bladder 
is also felt to be empty. 
About 6 p.m. the respiration is more calm, the trembling 
has disappeared ; the pulse is insensible ; the ears are cold. 
The horse still will not lie down, and the symptoms all argue 
unfavorably. The horse drops suddenly about half-past 
eight o’clock, and in about ten minutes breathes his last. 
Cadaveric inspection, eleven hours after death, discloses a 
double rent in the colon just above the sternum, with 
effusion of faecal matter. The other appearances were insig- 
nificant, and require no mention here. — Journ. de Med . Vtter, 
de Lyon , May, 1855. 
This case, which I have just translated in its proper turn, 
could not come more aptly than it does to prove the worth of 
my father’s reflections, to be found in the first pages of this 
number of the Journal. The horse just spoken of, with many 
others, died of ruptured colon ; he clearly was not treated 
with sufficient foresight, and the only agent that could have 
been relied on at first, viz., aloes, was never thought of. In 
fact, much as there is to admire when entering the stately 
edifices of the Continent, consecrated to the teaching of our 
noble calling, there is, like everywhere else, some fault to 
find, and none struck me more, in the school of Lyons, than 
the difficulty they have in purging horses. I firmly believe 
this depends on the very inferior aloes they have, which 
leads them to place more reliance in saline or oleaginous 
than in aloetic purgatives. It must, however, be evident, 
that we cannot possibly venture to say that a dose of aloes in 
time would have cured the animal above mentioned, and 
