PERFORATION OF THE SMALL INTESTINES. 5G9 
-honey, and gum arabic, were dissolved — acidulated injections 
into the nose, in order to get rid of the adhesive mucus — emollient 
injections, and the sparest diet. 
The emetic tartar was given in doses of a drachm in the second 
stage, and I had always reason to be satisfied with it, if I ab- 
stained from bleeding afterwards. I had ordered a drachm to be 
given in two doses to one of the sheep. The shepherd gave 
the half drachm to this sheep as directed, but without orders, or 
telling me what he had done, he gave the other half to another 
sheep that was just beginning to exhibit symptoms of the com- 
plaint. I came a little while afterwards, and, seeing this sheep 
ill, immediately bled it. In an hour afterwards it was dead. 
Two months afterwards I attended at the same farm, on account 
of several sheep being seized with the same complaint. 
PERFORATION OF THE SMALL INTESTINES BY 
ASCARIDES LUMBRICOIDES. 
By M. Veret, M.V. at Doullens. 
A post horse, nine years old, had been, during two years, 
subject to intermittent colic, and which oftenest attacked 
him when he was ascending a hill. These colicy pains were 
usually slight, and disappeared after the administration of 
linseed-oil and brandy, a bleeding being occasionally had re- 
course to. 
On the 25th of August, 1882, he was put into the diligence; 
but he had scarcely mounted a steep hill, a league out of town, 
eTe he was seized with colic so violently, that the postilion was 
obliged to send him back. The pains increased until eight o’clock 
at night, when he died, notwithstanding the usual bleeding, 
and the administration of drinks containing aether, &c. His 
sufferings resembled those of a horse with rupture of the dia- 
phragm. Every part of him seemed occasionally to be stiffened, 
and then he would grind his teeth, and tremble all over for a 
minute or more, and then have a short interval of comparative 
ease. These symptoms, however, were irregular; but the pulse 
during the whole of the illness w r as full and strong — the 
mucous membranes were red — the pains violent, and long 
continued. 
On the following morning, at five o’clock, I opened the animal. 
On puncturing the abdominal cavity, a strong sethereous odour 
was perceived, and, on throwing back the abdominal parietes, 
several ascarides presented themselves, with small parcels of 
