RUPTURED STOMACH. 
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when feeding on vetches yesterday. He was housed — bled, and 
had given to him tinct. opii. and ol. terebinth, for the supposed 
gripes. 
When I saw him, the pulse could not be felt at the jaw. He 
had a peculiar dejected appearance, and was breathing laboriously. 
He had been rolling and staggering about on the day before and 
all night. The skin was dreadfully lacerated about the head and 
abdomen. I could scarcely hear the heartbeat, it acted so feebly. 
I saw him at seven o’clock, a.m., and at eight o’clock he died in 
great agony. 
During the time I was in attendance, he vomited several times 
large quantities of half-digested vetches and gastric juice : it 
escaped through the mouth and nostrils. It was truly distressing 
to see the poor animal in the act of vomiting : there was crouch- 
ing, cringing, and violent contractions of the ribs and muscles of 
the neck, especially the large ones of the neck. They appeared 
not only to compress the oesophagus, but to draw the cervical 
vertebrae downwards. 
1 did not see the stomach after death ; but, according to my 
expectation, it was ruptured, undoubtedly from over gorging with 
vetches. 
On perusing The Veterinarian for this month, I perceive 
that Mr. Percivall treated a case of constipation of the bowels in 
a mare successfully by calomel and tobacco injections. He did 
not give oleaginous medicines, having no faith in them ; but I 
have seen, in many instances, the best effects from the adminis- 
tration of ol. ricini, particularly in costiveness and constipation of 
the bowels. Farmers’ horses, from eating coarse unwholesome 
food, are extremely liable to constipation ; which I generally treat 
successfully by bleeding, and exhibiting aloes in solution ; after- 
wards give ol. ricini in moderate doses until it operates, with 
plenty of warm water. 
SCIRRHOSITY, WITH ULCERATION OF THE 
TONGUE, IN A COW. 
By Mr. John Relph, Sebergham. 
On the 14th of January last, I examined a cow belonging to 
Mr. Grindall, of Skelton, that had for some weeks fed badly ; 
and had been treated, by a knowing one , for worm in the tail. 
She was now extremely emaciated, wishful to eat, but unable 
to masticate ; and there was a profuse flow of saliva. The tongue 
