OBSTINATE AND DANGEROUS CONSTIPATION. 
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Ether sulphuric Jiv 
Tinct. opii Jij 
Decoct, aloes C Jij 
Aq. tepid .. Oij M. 
An hour after these remedies had been administered he experienced 
remission of his pain, and continued tolerably quiet until 
10 o'clock A. M., when the pains returned again. Another 
tobacco enema was now given ; mustard and ammonia embroca- 
tion to the abdomen. The result of the enema was the issue of 
three or four dung-balls of the same light colour and soft consistence 
as the last. 
At noon . — Being desirous of ascertaining the state of the blad- 
der, but sparing evacuations of urine having been observed, back- 
raking was again had recourse to ; still, however, without any 
good result, save that the bladder was ascertained to be contracted 
into a globe not larger than a cricket-ball. The mustard embroca- 
tion was repeated, and likewise the tobacco enema. 
At 2 o'clock P. M., finding my patient, after all that had been 
done to relieve him, in a state beginning to create alarm, I 
made up my mind, after what I had learnt from Mr. Mayhew’s 
experiment, to test chloroform on him. We gave him at once one 
ounce by weight of chloroform mingled with half a pint of olive 
oil. He took the drench without spilling a drop. For some 
considerable time after his taking it, I kept watch on him ; but I 
could perceive no other result save that he moved his jaws about 
more than before, and appeared fonder than ever of immerging his 
nose in a pailful of cold water which was kept suspended in one 
corner of his box. 
At 7 o'clock P. M., I perceived him slavering at the mouth, and 
once, while standing close by him, I heard him distinctly hiccup , 
though I could not discover that anybody in attendance had heard 
the same sound. There was no remission, however, of his pain. 
I left him at three o’clock pawing with one fore foot, and he was 
still pawing. 
1 5th . — Has passed a restless night, and is still in pain. And 
he begins now to look hollow and ghastly about the eyes, and 
altogether exhibits to us a melancholy picture of pain and distress, 
which all that we have done has failed in relieving. 
About 11 o'clock to-day , Mr. Gloag, the veterinary surgeon of 
the 11th Hussars, opportunely looked in upon me. I related to 
him the particulars of my sad case, and begged his kind aid. He 
thought with me, “ nothing could save the patient and yet, he 
said, it would be worth while to give calomel and opium a trial. 
Such being so favourite a remedy of my own, I readily acquiesced 
in his suggestion, and had the following ball made up, which was 
given about noon, and was to be repeated every four hours : — 
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