ULCERATION OF THE COLON. 
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sportsman, the right hon. Lord Delamere, of Vale Royal, to 
attend one of his most beautiful stud that had this morning been 
seized with muco-enteritis, but which 1 was led to believe, from 
his known valued servant, to be a disease of a different nature. 
Harrison, the groom, had eight or ten days ago put the hunters 
through physic ; and it was observed that the mare in question 
purged more freely than the rest. It, however, set in two days, 
leaving her duller than her companions up to the day but one 
prior to the attack, when she began to take her corn, and appear 
as well as the rest. This morning he was going to have repeated 
the dose, had not the disease in question put a stop to any farther 
proceedings. 
The drugs for these horses were all compounded at one esta- 
blishment, that of Mr. Williams, druggist, of this place. The 
quantity given to this mare was 3viii of aloes, it being the dose he 
had been in the habit of giving her, having before proved that a 
smaller ball would not produce the desired effect. 
Symptoms , — Milder than those usually observed in inflamma- 
tion of the peritoneal or muscular coats ; extremities variable, 
and a purging of fsecal matter of the most offensive smell, 
saturated with blood and mucus. The treatment consisted in 
bleeding, she being of a plethoric habit, administering demul- 
cents and anodynes, with an occasional laxative of linseed oil 
internally, and powerful blisters and counter-irritants externally. 
On the 10th, the symptoms appeared easier, and the purging 
less frequent; the faeces of their natural colour, which they 
retained to her death. 
On the 11th, she became worse, and fell on the 12th, never to 
rise again. 
Post-mortem appearances. — Stomach and small intestines 
healthy. Caecum reddened on its mucous surface. Colon : its 
vessels on the inner surface congested ; it was of a jet black, 
and ulcerated from one end to the other, especially in the larger 
portion. Rectum more inflamed than the caecum, but less than 
the colon. The other abdominal and thoracic viscera presented 
no marks of disease worthy of record. 
Remarks . — You will perceive that the physic had ceased to 
purge for nearly a week- prior to the mare’s commencing the 
ejection of bloody and offensive faecal matter. That the same 
drug had been given to the other horses in the same stable, and 
the quantity, although a large dose, is no more than she had 
been in the habit of taking. Had the articles used been of an 
inferior or improper quality, I should have expected the other 
animals to have suffered. Is it possible that a portion of the 
drug to could be lodged in some inert matter within the cells of the 
