ACUTE INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION. 
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This apparatus is the contrivance of Mr. W. Baker, V.S. of 
Dedham, in Essex, and may be procured by application to him. 
As disarming this operation of many of its objectionable cir- 
cumstances of barbarity, as well as better securing all its sup- 
posed advantages, we cordially recommend it. 
VeUtiMtv Sttrteprutrence* 
Acute Intestinal Inflammation, caused by the accu- 
mulation of Gravel. 
By M. Hamont, M.V. Lamballe. 
On December 3d, 1836, at eleven at night, I was desired by 
Mr. Lerait, livery stable keeper at Lamballe, to look at an entire 
horse, four years old, very much out of condition. The pro- 
prietor suspected that he had hernia (d'etre atteint d'un effort ). 
He had bought him two days before. The horse had been ill 
fed, and M. Lerait thought that from the evening on which he 
purchased him he had been very dull. On the following day he 
had lent him to a person, who had only driven him five leagues, 
when he found that he could not get him any farther. He had him 
led back to Lamballe, where the horse arrived in a great deal of 
pain, and after having fallen down many times. It was impossi- 
ble, however, although he was supported on either side, to bring 
him so far as the house of the owner. Some one had bled him 
on the road. 
It was five hours after his arrival at Lamballe that I saw him. 
He was lying on his right side — his body covered with a cold 
sweat — the mucous membrane pale and cold — the respiration 
much accelerated — the pulse small, and scarcely to be felt — - 
the posterior limbs stiff and cold, and only executing, now and 
then, some partial movements. The belly was slightly swelled, 
but pressure on it did not cause any pain. Having examined 
him by the rectum, I remarked that there was a hardness of the 
colon, especially towards the pelvian curvature, and that the 
bladder was distended. Pressure on the neck of the bladder was 
very painful, and the urine was voided only by jets. 
I gave it as my opinion, that the horse laboured under acute 
inflammation of the bladder, complicated with some intestinal 
