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ON THE TOBACCO CLYSTER. 
the 10th of the present month (June), attendance was desired 
upon her for having “ the gripes.” She had been lying down 
in her bailed stall, among other horses, upon the bare stones, 
and was, when first my assistant saw her, about to do so again, 
being evidently in a great deal of pain : she was not, however, 
allowed to lie down again, but was immediately bridled, and 
removed into an in firmary- box. Here she had an antispasmodic 
ball and a common soap-and-water clyster administered to her, 
which brought away a few light-coloured softish dung-balls, 
after which she was taken out and exercised. While at exercise, 
about a quarter past nine o’clock, l saw her. She was sweating 
from pain, trying all means to lie down, and it was evidently as 
much as the man who was leading her could do to prevent her. 
1 sent her back to her box, and finding her pulse quickened and 
somewhat thready, and that sharp pains were still harassing her, 
I ordered her this drench: — Decoct, aloes co. §xij # , tinct. opii, 
spts. eether. nitric, aa Jij, aquae, buliient 9j, M. fiat haust. ; 
and afterwards had her bled to the amount of Oxx, an abstrac- 
tion she bore without evincing any sign of exhaustion. I also 
ordered a repetition of her enema simplex , and her belly to be 
well rubbed with a turpentine and ammonia liniment. No dung 
followed the discharge of the second clyster. By the time all 
this was accomplished she had lost the poignancy of her pains, 
and, with the exception of an occasional attempt at striking the 
belly with one or other of her hind feet, had become tolerably 
tranquil, no longer manifesting any desire to lie down. The 
pulse, since the blood-letting, has not been perceptible at the 
jaw. There has never been any disturbance of the respiration. 
She was now left to herself for awhile. 
2 o'clock , p.m. — She is evincing some return of griping pains, 
by occasional shruggings of the neck and inflexions of the 
head, and by alternately lifting her hind feet in raising them to- 
wards her belly: not attempting, however, to lie down. *No 
dung. Give her an aloetic clyster. 
7 o'clock , p. m. — She has continued free from any relapse of 
acute pain — is now dull and gloomy in countenance — pulse 60, 
and rather more perceptible. Repeat the aloetic enema. 
June 1 \ th . — She has passed the night without any returning pa- 
roxysm ; still she occasionally lifts one or other of her hind feet. 
She has ejected no dung since the commencement of the attack, 
notwithstanding, at intervals, she has been walked out. Her 
pulse has gained strength, but does not indicate blood-letting : 
nevertheless, I felt desirous to know if she would bear any farther 
abstraction, and accordingly had her opposite jugular opened. 
* Every ounce of the decoction contains a drachm of Barbadoes aloes. 
