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Several, however, were complicated during their course with a 
comatous affection which long remained after the disappearance 
of the symptoms of the primitive malady. 
Two horses, among others, presented the characters of immo- 
bility after an acute inflammation of the intestines. 
Colic . — All the results, without exception, of the clinical pro- 
ceedings of this year, have demonstrated the propriety of the 
practice of copious bleeding whenever the intestinal pains are 
intense, and the animals abandon themselves to various disor- 
dered movements. This practice, long established in our hospi- 
tals, is based on the incontestable fact, that in every case where 
the intestinal pains announce themselves by violent movements, 
there is, from one cause or another, congestion in some isolated 
or extended part of the intestinal tube. In these cases, whatever 
is the fulness of the intestine, venesection is indicated, and will 
never be hurtful. 
The effect produced is so remarkable that it cannot be made 
too widely known. We have seen horses in an absolutely 
furious state during an attack of colic, and whom we were 
compelled to shackle while bleeding in order to restrain the 
precipitate movements to which they abandoned themselves, 
and from which they recovered and became calm and quiet 
after the abstraction of from twenty to twenty-five pounds of 
blood. 
Intestinal Ulceration in the Horse (Typhoid Fever ). — In the 
course of the month of July, an entire horse, of considerable 
height, was brought to the Alfort school. 
This animal, which, according to the opinion of its owner, had 
only one fault, that of being too eager in harness, had been em- 
ployed for a considerable time in drawing stones. He had only 
recovered three months from an affection of the chest, which had 
confined him to the stable for fifty days. At his admission into 
the hospital he was in an extraordinary state of dejection and pros- 
tration of strength. He supported himself on his legs with dif- 
ficulty and pain — his walk was unsteady — the loins stiff and bent 
— the coat rough, and the countenance had that singular expres- 
sion of suffering which coincides with the lesions of the ganglial 
nervous system. The breathing was deep and interrupted, the 
pulse small and weak, the conjunctival membrane of a red colour, 
and appearing as if it were infiltered with a serous fluid ; petechial 
spots were also disseminated over the pituitary membrane. 
Auscultation . — The parietes of the thorax did not afford any 
particular symptom. The diagnosis was uncertain, and the 
degree in which this malady prevailed it was impossible to de- 
termine. 
