RUPTURE OF THE STOMACH IN A HORSE, 
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in the anterior parts of the body, and only when standing. More 
of the aether was administered, in order to produce reaction. I 
should here mention, although in the course of sixteen hours he 
got Jxiii spirit, aether, nitrici, yet the tremor never left him. 
7 p.m. — Still worse. I had his abdomen fomented with a carpet 
wrung out of hot water, and got Barb, aloe 3i, opii et. hydrarg. 
subm. aa. 9ij, ext. hyosciam. 3ss, pulv. digital. 3j> in the form of 
a ball. 
11 p.m. — Ball to be repeated at that hour, if no better. Still 
trembling. Repeat the aether in gruel, and give injections every 
hour. Getting worse. 
Between twelve and one o’clock, I had rubbed on the belly 
sinipas. Tbj, ol. terebinth, ^viii, aqua bullien. q. s. ; but it seemed 
to make no impression on him, although it was so powerful that 
the attendants could with difficulty stand it. 
At one o’clock on the morning of the 1st of November he 
vomited four times. 
At two a.m. pulse 110, and scarcely perceptible — great pro- 
stration of strength. The ball and nitrous aether were continued. 
He now fell repeatedly, and lay for a little while as if he was 
quite inanimate. 
4 a.m. — Standing more, but sadly weak — the legs and ears alter- 
nately hot and cold — mouth cold and clammy — pulse scarcely to 
be felt either at the submaxillary or radial artery — breathing very 
quick, so much so, that the heaving of the flanks was almost syn- 
chronous with the pulse, and it could scarcely be numbered. From 
this hour until seven o’clock he became more and more exhausted, 
and his sufferings more and more intense, until he died. 
Such is a hasty description of a case, possessing more than a 
common degree of interest, from the striking peculiarities pre- 
sented in the post-mortem appearances, which I will now endea- 
vour to describe. 
The examination took place twelve hours after death. On 
laying open the abdomen, a quantity of gas made its escape, 
which induced me to think the caecum was punctured ; but, on 
that portion of the intestinal tube making its appearance, as it is 
usually the first to do, it was seen to be entire. 
On proceeding to cut away the abdominal muscles, from the 
linea alba towards the spine, the scalpel following the natural 
course of the ribs, a considerable quantity of liquid feculent mat- 
ter was observed to escape. The intestines were then carefully 
drawn back, and held to one side, in order to expose the sto- 
mach, on the surface of which was a considerable quantity of solid 
ingesta, which had lately been contained in the interior of that 
