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METEORIZATION IN A FILLY, & C. 
pint and a half of good cider. She revived— and some hours 
afterwards I completed the evacuation. 
I then filled the sac which the skin had formed with pledgets 
of tow wetted with spirit, and ordered better food to be given to 
her : we however proceeded cautiously in this ; and after awhile, 
we gave her small doses of gentian. She rapidly improved, and 
I left her for fifteen days. When I saw her again, the wound 
had closed — but a tumour remained about the size of a fist. In 
six months she was sold at a good price. 
Mem . de la Soc. Vet . da Calvados , tom. ii, p. 92. 
METEORIZATION IN A FILLY— WITH PUNCTURE 
OF THE INTESTINE. 
By M. Garcin, M.V., Hyeres. 
On October 15th, 1823, I was sent for to see a filly eighteen 
months old, attacked by colic. She had been eating bran and de 
la melee — chopped wheaten straw, and dried lucern, mixed toge- 
ther. She refused her food — stamped — shivered ; the pulse was 
hard ; the conjunctival membranes pale and infiltrated, and the 
belly a little swelled. These symptoms had continued since the 
morning of the preceding day. Give mucilaginous drinks and 
emollient injections. 
1 6th. — Greater enlargement of the belly; the animal looks at 
his flanks — lies down and rolls on his litter — the respiration is 
accelerated and painful, and the pulse small and hard. Cold mu- 
cilaginous drinks in which are given, alternately, ammonia and 
sulphuric ether. 
The meteorization increased during the day, and the respira- 
tion became more laborious and painful. When night approached, 
I abstracted six or seven pounds of blood. 
During the nights of the 16th and 17th, the enlargement of 
the belly and the flanks became enormQusly extended. The 
injections had hitherto been returned without any stercoral 
matter; I therefore now administered an ounce of aloes. 
17th. — The mucous membranes had now assumed a violet 
red colour ; the countenance expressed the utmost anxiety ; the 
animal could not be at rest a moment, and every thing presaged 
the rapid approach of death. It was then that, in despair, 
I determined to have recourse to paracentesis. When a pupil 
at the veterinary school at Lyons, I had often seen it attempted, 
but never with success. 
The animal now not being able to stand on its legs, I had it 
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