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of buckthorn administered by the mouth. It was rejected in half 
an hour, and the dog began to exhibit symptoms of greater pain. 
As the day passed on he became restless, and howled sadly. 
The medicine was repeated, with half a drachm of the syrup of 
white poppies. He died in the night. 
On opening him in the following morning, a peach-stone was 
found half way along the ileum. The portion of intestine through 
which it had passed was violently inflamed, and a singular spas- 
modic contraction pervaded the whole of the small intestine through 
which the foreign body had yet to find its way. 
It was supposed that the stone had been swallowed on the 22d. 
An apricot stone was in the stomach. 
1820. April 23. — A Newfoundland dog, belonging to Mr. 
Nowell, of Wimpole Street, had always had a strange propensity 
to swallow stones, ropes, and all kinds of indigesta. Yesterday 
morning he vomited several stones, and, to-day, much limpid fluid, 
with a considerable quantity of gravel. I gave him my usual 
emetic — equal quantities of calomel and emetic tartar. He had 
four grains of the compound powder. It did its duty, but no more 
of these foreign substances were ejected from the mouth. He, 
however, in the course of the night passed three stones by stool, 
one of them weighing more than two ounces. After this he seemed 
to be well. 
August 8/A. — He is very ill. He has frequent vomiting — his 
belly is strangely tucked up, and hard and cordy. Give four 
drachms of the aperient mixture — four parts of castor oil, two of 
syrup of buckthorn, and one of syrup of white poppies — every six 
hours. 
The medicine is rejected almost as soon as swallowed. Three 
drops of croton oil in a little oil of olives caused most violent sick- 
ness ; soon after which the animal died. A stone, of the form of a 
common pebble, and weighing nearly four ounces, was found in the 
ileum, and was the evident cause of death. 
1821. March . — A terrier, belonging to Mr. Dewberry, of Con- 
duit Street, refused to eat. It panted, vomited, and laboured under 
constipation which nothing could remove. He died, and a piece of 
cork — the half of a common wine-bottle cork — was found in the 
ileum. 
1823. Aug . — A large Blenheim spaniel, belonging to Mrs. 
Winstanley, swallowed a shilling. An emetic was given in less 
than half an hour. Plenty of food was regurgitated, but no coin. 
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