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CASES OF RUPTURE OF THE STOMACH. 
at plough. About three o’clock in the afternoon he fell down and 
rolled about during two or three minutes ; he then got up, and 
continued his work without any apparent pain for an hour. A 
few minutes after four o’clock he fell again, and rolled. The man 
got him up, and brought him home, a distance of two miles. I 
was then sent for, and it was six o’clock before I could see my 
patient. He evinced the following symptoms he was per- 
spiring profusely — the ears and legs cold — the pulse hardly per- 
ceptible — an immense quantity of a dirty-coloured fluid con- 
tinually flowing from the nostrils — the membranes pale — respira- 
tion much embarrassed. 
I thought it was a hopeless case, and as such expressed my 
opinion to the owner, who washed me to do something. I bled him 
to the extent of Ifeviij, and gave the following draught : sol. aloes 
5iv, nit. ether. §ij, op. tine. §i, in half a pint of warm water : the 
abdomen also was well stimulated. 
At half past six he gradually got worse, vomiting continually. 
There was great prostration of strength, and cold sweats ; and 
about seven o’clock he died in great agony. 
Post-mortem appearances . — On laying open the abdomen and 
exposing the intestines, a great quantity of dung was found 
mingled with them. The intestines were filled with dry and hard 
cut meat. On coming to the stomach, but without touching or 
displacing it, a rupture of that viscus was exposed to view, com- 
mencing near the cardiac orifice, extending about ten or twelve 
inches. The stomach was much inflamed. The other viscera were 
perfectly healthy. 
I was lately called upon to attend a two-year-old colt, the pro- 
perty of Mr. Hanson, of Driby, who informed me that the animal 
had vomited a bucketfull of greenish fluid. On my arrival I 
found him dead. On opening him, the intestines were found 
perfectly healthy, the stomach full of grass, and much distended 
with gas. 
The owner informed me that the horse had been on a poor kind 
of land until within the last day, when he was put into a rich 
pasture, where I should suppose he overgorged himself. Should 
you think that in this over-distention the cardiac orifice (so beau- 
tifully described by Mr. Ferguson) becomes ruptured ; or is there 
a loss of the natural energy of these singularly constructed mus- 
cles, and hence vomition ? 
On some future opportunity I shall probably venture to offer a 
few observations on inflammation of the udder in cows. The 
Essay by M. J. P. Lecoq, published in The Veterinarian, is 
exceedingly well written. The treatment he pursues is judicious, 
and not described in so roundabout a way as are some of these 
cases by our own countrymen and by his. 
