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A NOVEL APPARATUS FOR ADMINISTERING 
ENEMAS. 
By E. B. Dawson, M.R.C.V.S., Remount Depot, Orpoor. 
Permit me to make known through the medium of your 
pages, a method of clystering horses, which I found prac- 
tised in the Depot here, on my appointment, and which I 
have since had much reason to approve of ; indeed, I con- 
sider the apparatus so superior to anything of the kind in ordi- 
nary use, that I feel anxious to give it publicity. 1 1 consists of a 
strong leather bag, having a wooden tube attached to it, 
after the manner of the old “pipe and bladder.” The bag 
holds about half a gallon and has a ferrule upon the top, 
into which fits a funnel. The horse is placed upon an 
inclined piece of ground, with his fore legs lower than the 
hind ones. The pipe is introduced in the usual manner, 
and, together with the bag, held by an assistant while the 
necessary quantity of fluid is being poured into it with a pan- 
nakin or other small vessel, through the funnel. The fluid is 
thus allowed to find its way into the intestines by its own 
weight, no pressure upon the bag being necessary. The tube 
should not be removed until the quantity deemed requisite 
has passed into the rectum. 
The pouring in of the fluid into the funnel should be 
stayed during any efforts made to eject the clyster, as some 
of it w ill then return into the bag and perhaps flow over the 
side, but immediately the effort subsides, it will again pass into 
the rectum, when the pouring in may be resumed. As much as 
three large pailsful of warm water are at times administered 
in this manner, and without much effort on the part of the 
animal to expel it. My predecessor, Mr. Thacker, “ V.S., 
Horse Brigade Artillery,” attributed most successful results 
to its agency, as the quantity of fluid that may be intro- 
duced into the intestines in this manner is astonishing. 
The number of cases of colic and subsequent inflammation 
of the intestines in India, attributable to constipation is very 
great; and, as far as my experience has gone, considerable diffi- 
culty is found in getting horses to retain a sufficiency of fluid to 
remove an obstruction of the bowels by any other enema appa- 
ratus, and I feel sure that veterinary surgeons who have not 
seen one of the kind I have attempted to describe, and who will 
avail themselves of it, will be much pleased with the result. 
