PROTRUSION OF THE RECTUM. 
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There is no animal concerning the treatment of which so much 
ignorance prevails, or one which so frequently suffers from the 
measures designed to cure its disorders ; conspicuously, there- 
fore, little can be inferred from that concerning which we know so 
little. To insist upon a sameness where only a remote likeness 
can be proved to exist is obviously wrong ; and, while anxious to 
rescue the most affectionate and sensitive of animals from the use- 
less persecutions of science, I am also desirous of making the 
public more fully alive to the dangers which are inseparable from 
every species of inhumanity. Charity is no less the duty than it 
is the interest of mankind, and certainly no creature has a stronger 
claim to our regard than the poor beast whose generosity of dispo- 
sition is cruelly converted into a reason for subjecting it to torture. 
Were the dog by nature savage, fear in the toxicologist and others 
would rescue it from those fruitless barbarities which nobler senti- 
ments appear to be incapable of inducing such persons to abandon. 
I remain, your’s sincerely, 
Edw. Mayhew. 
16, Spring- street, Westbourne-terrace. 
PROTRUSION OF THE RECTUM IN A TWO-YEAR- 
OLD COLT. 
By W. Cartwright, M.R.CV.S., Whitchurch , Salop. 
On the 30th August, 1848, Mr. , of , discovered, 
about six o’clock A. M., that a two-year-old half-bred colt of his had 
a part of the rectum protruding at the anus. 
Four o'clock P. M. — I saw him, and found a tumour, the size of a 
large fist, hanging out at the anus. It was of a red colour, and across 
it there was an irregular incision, an eighth of an inch deep, as if 
it had been torn by some nail, or, what appeared more likely, had 
burst from over-distention. On particularly examining it, I found 
that it was a portion of the surface of the lower rectum, which was 
grasped by the sphincter ani, the compression moulding it into 
its present shape. The animal was in no pain — was, indeed, graz- 
ing in the field. I had him put into a stable; and then T returned 
the gut, and bled him to a gallon, and ordered that he have nothing 
to eat, and that some one should be in constant attendance, night 
and day, to return the gut whenever it became forced out, which 
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