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CASE) OF STRICTURE OF THE RECTUM. 
inches from the entrance, so that I could scarcely pass three fingers. 
I immediately told the owner that I considered the case hopeless ; 
but he said I must try what I could do, for there was no telling 
while she lived. I sent her a solution of aloes with oil to be given; 
a liquid blister to be applied to her back from the root of the tail 
to the front of her loins ; and blister ointment to be applied next 
morning. T kept the blistering up for nearly three weeks, giving 
her an injection night and morning, and aloes and oil occasionally. 
She was turned out to grass in the daytime. This was about the 
15th of April. 
I was castrating a colt for him on the 14th of May, when she 
came galloping up to us. One of the servant men desired me to 
look at her, and added that she was worth many dead ones : I 
said she looked well, and in fine condition, for so short a time ; but 
that I was not sure about her. 
On the 12th of June I was sent for again, when I found her the 
same as before. The same treatment had the desired effect, but 
only for a day or two at a time. 
About the latter end of June the owner wished me to have her 
in my infirmary. I consented, and he sent her on the 1st of July; 
but being from home till evening, I did not see her until that time. 
I immediately sent for two of my medical friends, who live in the 
town. One of them stripped off his coat and examined the rectum, 
saying, it was very singular if nothing could be done, she being a 
great beauty, 'and half-bred. After using a great deal of force he 
got his hand through the stricture, and advised me to pursue the 
same treatment as before, with the addition of applying the iodine 
ointment to the stricture every morning, and opium and lard every 
night. 
I had her in a barn, at a short distance from the house, and sent 
my young man to bleed her according to the wish of my medical 
friends. He did not get more than a pint from her, when she fell 
and died. 
On opening her, next morning between six and seven, both 
friends were present, and many were the conjectures what would 
be the post-mortem appearances, since she died so soon after we 
had left her. The rectum only was diseased, being as black as a 
hat, and thickened from one end to the other, and one inch deep 
for a foot from the stricture. The stricture was cartilaginous and 
bony in the centre ; every other part being as healthy as possible. 
