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CAESARIAN OPERATION ON A ROW. 
colt, which was ill. Upon examination I found the colt to 
be suffering from indigestion. The leading symptoms were 
a distended belly ; discharge of saliva from the mouth ; 
respiration a little increased and the pulse numbering about 
40 per minute. I prescribed — 
Diet to consist of boiled linseed, combined with bran 
mashes. On the following day the mixture was repeated. 
Oct. 1st. — I again visited the patient, which I found to be 
so much better that no medicine was administered, but 
instructions were given for the same diet to be continued. 
On the next day a messenger was sent to request my imme- 
diate attendance, as the colt was much worse. I learned by 
my inquiries that the animal w T as very restless, that the 
the belly was much swollen, and the penis pendulous. Upon 
my arrival the colt was dead, from which I felt satisfied, 
though the subject was so young, that some organ was 
ruptured. 
Post-mortem Examination . — On first laying open the abdo- 
men, I observed a large quantity of masticated grass, mixed 
with bran, &c., in the cavity, and proceeding further in the 
examination, the stomach was found to be ruptured. The 
length of the rent was about ten inches. The whole of the 
other organs were in a healthy condition. It is well known 
that in young animals the tissues are exceedingly soft and 
yielding, which makes this case, the subject not having 
reached the sixth month of his age, the more interesting. 
Query. — I s the rupture to be referred to an accumulation 
of sulphuretted hydrogen gas within the stomach, with spasm 
of its cardiac and pyloric orifices, or to an extraordinary 
action of the muscular coat of the organ on the food within ? 
CESARIAN OPERATION ON A SOW. 
By George Morgan, Y.S., Aloah, Banffshire. 
On the 12th July, 1856, my attendance was requested to 
a sow, the property of F. Runcie, Esq., Greenlaw. On 
arriving, I found a case of difficult parturition, and though 
the labour pains had existed for several hours, she had only 
Tinct. Opii, ; 
