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572 INTUSSUSCEPTION OF THE ILIUM. 
made to me. As he remained quite easy up to half-past 
4 p.m., the farrier-major was about to discharge him, when 
symptoms of spasmodic colic manifested themselves. It ap- 
pears this was about half an hour after he was watered. 
Enemas were repeated, and the following draught adminis- 
tered : 
R 01. Terebinthinse, fSiij ; 
Pulv. Opii, 5j ; 
Aquae Tep., f^xij. 
At evening stables, I went, according to custom, to the 
sick-lines, when my attention was immediately directed to 
the horse in question. The symptoms were urgent, and de- 
manded antiphlogistic measures. 
I ordered a copious venesection at once, from the jugular 
vein, and prescribed — 
Aloes, Jvjss ; 
Ginger, in bolus. 
The pain continuing, an hour afterwards a blister was well 
rubbed over the surface of the abdomen. At intervals the 
horse was restless, lying down and rolling, then rising and 
looking to his sides, which continued more or less until 
2 o’clock a.m. of the 13th. 
I visited him early on that morning, and found him in a 
hopeless state. His ears, muzzle, and legs were deathly 
cold ; the buccal membrane of a livid hue, and the mouth dry. 
Some of the contents of the stomach were escaping from 
both nostrils. His eyes looked wild and anxious. He was 
quite pulseless at the jaw, and there was continual sighing 
and grinding of the teeth. He was perpetually shifting 
about, and anxious for water, but unable to swallow it. I at 
once came to the conclusion that there was strangulation of 
the intestines, and my prognosis, accordingly, was an early 
death. At a few minutes before 9 o’clock on the same 
morning he suddenly fell down and expired without a 
struggle. 
The 'post-mortem examination disclosed intussusception of 
the ilium, two yards and a half of the anterior portion of 
this intestine, with a considerable portion of the mesentery, 
being thrust into the posterior portion, and had become so 
firmly imbedded, that it required no ordinary degree of force 
to withdraw it. The coats of the part of the intestine in- 
volved in the stricture were, from effusion, excessively swollen 
and tense, and in various stages of inflammation, running on 
