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almost immediately. He would roll upon his back, in which 
position he remained apparently easy for a few seconds. The 
respiration was irregular — the legs and ears rather cold — the 
body in a profuse perspiration. The pulse beat 125 times in 
the minute. He was looking frequently round at his flanks. 
When he got up, he would back himself against the walls of the 
stable in a peculiar manner, and his appearance altogether de- 
noted that his sufferings were extreme. 
I abstracted two pounds of blood, and administered lini olei 
^v, opii 9j, and blistered his abdomen, which seemed to have no 
beneficial effect. 
I saw him again on the same evening at eleven ; he was then in 
as great distress as ever and continually rolling about the stable. 
His pulse at that time had sunk to 100 beats in the minute, and 
the other symptoms were as before. He had voided no faeces, 
but had urinated freely. 
I considered the case hopeless, but repeated the above draught, 
and left him with an attendant for the night. 
I saw him once more on the following morning at nine o’clock, 
and was then informed by the servant that he was better. He 
had been standing quiet for some time, which led the man to 
think that such was the case. It was very evident, however, that 
he was fast sinking : his pulse was 150 beats in the minute, and 
the other symptoms much aggravated. He continued about 
the same until seven o’clock in the evening, when he died. 
On laying open the abdomen, an hour after death, I found, 
upon tracing the intestines, commencing at the stomach, that a 
portion of the ileum had passed into the same intestine situated 
posteriorly to it, and to the extent of more than two feet. This 
part was in a state of decomposition, particularly that which was 
invaginated in the other, and there was a considerable quantity 
of coagulated blood for some distance down the intestinal tube. 
Posteriorly situated to the diseased part, and anterior to the 
stoppage, the intestines were very much inflated. There was no 
inflammation existing to much extent in any other part of the 
intestines. All the other viscera were quite healthy. 
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