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having passed during the night. Pulse GO; extremities cold. 
I bled him, gave an aperient draught, and injected the bowels. 
Pain continuing all through the day an aperient ball was 
given, and the bleeding twice repeated. 
19th. — The pain continued through the day. Injection re- 
peated ; more aperient medicine was given, and he was bled 
again. 
20th. — The pain continues ; the lameness disappears. Injec- 
tions, aperient medicine, and bleeding repeated. Abdomen soft; 
the intestines rumbling much ; but as yet no fseces have passed. 
21 6*. — Easy, but no faeces pass. Repeat the injections, and 
more aperient ball. 
22 d. — Symptoms and treatment the same. 
2-M. — Ditto ditto. 
21th, 25th, 2 Oth, 27th. — Continues easy, but no improvement ; 
no appetite. Treatment continued, with trifling variation ; but 
nothing has yet passed. Calomel 9ij, were given in jiv of 
cordial mass. 
28th. — Repeat the ball and injections ; no faeces ; pain re- 
turning at intervals. 
29th. — No faeces. Injections repeated, and pain constant. 
30/ A.— He died. 
We commenced the post-mortem examination with the confi- 
dent expectation of finding some extensive abdominal mischief ; 
but to our surprise, nothing was to be discovered, either in the 
chest or abdomen , except a portion of the jejunum contracted for 
about eighteen inches in length to the size of a small cart rope, 
but without the slightest inflammatory blush either within or 
without. The stomach and large intestines were comparatively 
empty, and the contents sufficiently fluid to pass : in fact, we could 
discover nothing but the obstruction which I have already men- 
tioned ; but that was so great, that even when the intestine was 
held up the contents, although so fluid, would not pass down 
without considerable pressure. 
Remarks. — The above case occupied a great deal of time and 
attention. The horse was brought here as a lame horse. Could 
the pain in the limb have been symptomatic? Were not his 
bowels most probably nearly emptied by his previous journey, 
and that fact not taken into consideration from his natural washy 
appearance? Under the first impression we considered the case, 
from the pain not being violent and no faeces passing, as one of 
constipation, and gave an aloetic draught 3 iv, with ol. ricini 
3 vii j- 
On the 18th he lost twelve quarts of blood, four quarts 
on the 19th, and four quarts on the 20th ; when, the ab- 
