STRANGULATION OF THE ILEUM AND COLON. 41 
manage that, and it was not given. His former condition re- 
turned: he now does his duty as before, and is in perfect 
health. 
This case, a similar one to which I do not recollect to have 
seen, evidently proves how the instinct (Q y ) of animals contributes 
to their preservation. I confess that I did not expect so perfectly 
to succeed, or, indeed, to succeed at all ; but its fortunate result 
induces me to publish a case which, I think, will be interesting 
to my professional brethren. 
Mem . de la Soc. Vet. du Calvados. 
A CASE OF STRANGULATION OF THE ILEUM AND 
COLON. 
By Mr. B. Bull, Launceston. 
On about the 10th day of September last, I was sent for to 
attend a chesnut mare belonging to a respectable farmer in this 
neighbourhood which appeared to be affected with a slight 
attack of spasmodic colic. The fecal discharges being natural 
and regular, and perceiving no undue arterial excitement, nor any 
particular appearance of symptomatic fever, I treated the case 
as one of simple colic or intestinal spasm. I gave her a mixture 
composed of balsam of capivi one ounce, spirit of nitrous ether one 
ounce, tincture of opium half an ounce, mixed with the yolk of an 
egg in about twelve ounces of a decoction of elder flowers. This 
with a clyster that I administered, and a moderate abstraction of 
blood, removed all the symptoms, and the mare returned to her 
usual food, and soon recovered. 
In about six weeks afterwards, however, she was taken in the 
same way again, but more violently than before. Even at this 
time she presented no marked characteristics of intestinal inflam- 
mation, but merely turned her nose to her flanks while standing, 
and when down lay on her back for some seconds, appearing to 
feel considerable ease while lying in that position. 
I adopted a similar plan of treatment to that above described, 
and which afforded a speedy though only temporary relief. The 
symptoms returning upon her with increasing violence, I re- 
peated the bleeding, and gave her oily laxatives combined with 
neutral salts, and clystered her, in order to remove a slight 
degree of costiveness which followed some few hours afterwards. 
In short, I pursued that mode of treatment which I considered 
most likely not only to prevent an accession to the febrile symp- 
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