28 TENESMUS AND PROTRUSION OF THE RECTUM. 
sightly an appearance. His pulse never rose higher than from 
50 to 55 ; his appetite pretty good, and his looks lively. 
11 th. — I gave him tine, opii ^iss, tine, catechu ^ij, creta p.p. 
ol. lini Jij, and ordered the protruding rectum to be fomented, 
and then the following lotion to be employed, Goulard’s extract 
3ij, ol. lini *ij. The rectum was afterwards returned, but not 
without some difficulty, on account of the parts being so much 
enlarged, and the constant resistance offered by the horse when 
an attempt was made to put it up. 
12/A. — Appetite, pulse, and spirits as yesterday ; the purging 
nearly the same. The rectum had again protruded about an 
hour after my leaving him yesterday ; it is more enlarged, and 
approaching to the colour of liver. I repeated the drench.; the 
fomentations and mixture were as yesterday; but I could not return 
the rectum on account of the horse’s straining and the swelling 
being so great. 
13 th. — Treatment the same : the swelling of the rectum 
greatly abated. 
14/ A. — He is now very weak, so much so that he can scarcely 
get up without help ; but the purging is ceasing, and he con- 
tinues to eat well. It being a fine day, he was turned out a few 
hours on clover eddish. The drench was repeated in the morn- 
ing, and a ball, composed of pulv. zingib. ^ss., pulv. gent., Jss., 
was given in the evening. Fomentation, &c., as before. 
15/A. — Much better: the purging stopped ; the swelling sub- 
sided, and the rectum gone up without assistance. The weather 
being fine, the horse was turned out an hour or two in the day; 
and a ball like that of yesterday was given daily until the 25th. He 
was then quite recovered, except some degree of weakness, which 
he gradually surmounted without any further treatment of mine. 
CASE II. 
This was a rearing calf, about three months old, belonging tc 
Mr. Wm. Pinkham, of Ashby. I was sent for on the 18th of 
May last. I found the little animal lying down, but not shewing 
any great pain : it was purging very much, and had been so four 
or five days. The faeces were of the consistence and colour of 
yeast, and smelled very offensively ; and the rectum was pro- 
truding about six inches, and swollen to nearly the size of a 
man’s arm. The mucous coat appeared to hang in tatters, as it 
were, upon the muscular one : the pulse was but little altered, 
and the appetite good. The rectum was bathed with warm 
w^ater, and the same application used as in the former case ; and 
i gave internally tine, opii, tine, catechu, and prepared chalk, 
of each an ounce in some gruel. I then proceeded to return the 
