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RUPTURE OF THE MESENTERY. 
st ruction before any trust is reposed : in the Customs the same. 
We have precedents in our own profession ad libitum ; but enough. 
No one but an ignoramus or a fool could for a moment think 
otherwise. I am, Sir, 
Your obedient servant. 
Arthur Cherry. 
May 3, 1848. 
RUPTURE OF THE MESENTERY AND STRANGULATION 
OF INTESTINE. 
By John Hawthorn, M.R.C.V.S., Kettering . 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian.” 
Sir, — HAVING had lately a case of not common occurrence, and 
not having seen a record of such a disease in any veterinary pub- 
lication, I thought it, perhaps, might have interest enough to be 
inserted in your valuable Journal. 
The disease I should call rupture of the mesentery and conse- 
quent strangulation of the intestines. It is partly similar in its 
symptoms and the operation for cure to strangulation of the intes- 
tines over the spermatic cord, commonly called “ gut-tie.” 
In the mesenteric strangulation the symptoms are slighter; 
there is not so much derangement of health, not so much striking 
of the belly with the hind legs, and not so much stretching of the 
body and sinking of the loins after rising from lair, as in 
“ gut-tie.” There is also, for the first two or three days, more faeces 
passed (although the quantity is but small), and there is not so 
much slimy mucus in the rectum ; and when operated on, the in- 
testine does not hang so completely like a sheet over a line as in 
the “ gut-tie” strangulation. 
I have had a good many cases of “ gut-tie,” and most of them 
successful ones; but have had only three cases like the one now 
described, all of which recovered. But it was rather singular 
that I saw a fourth case for the first and only time on the same 
day as the following operation was performed. The animal had 
been neglected, and was sinking fast. I opened it for satisfaction, 
but found the intestines gangrenous and intolerably foetid, with a 
quantity of purulent red water in the abdomen. Although I could 
feel the strangulation, it was useless to do any thing, and the animal 
was killed. All these cases were males, of the Durham breed, 
