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STOMACH STAGGERS, OR DYSENTERY”. 
yard several times, with his eyes turned up into their sockets, and 
it was feared he would die before I could arrive. I suspected 
what was the matter, and accordingly went prepared to meet the 
enemy. 
I found it to be a decided case of stomach staggers. The beast 
was reeling about the yard, unconscious of surrounding objects ; — 
occasionally drawing his hind quarters after him for some dis- 
tance, and then falling into a state of stupor — moaning, and 
making efforts to void some faeces, but without effect, as the rectum 
had protruded at least two inches, and the sphincter ani had 
become so contracted around the prolapsed intestine as to make it 
almost impracticable to introduce my hand. I, however, did intro- 
duce it, and, to my surprise, found not a particle of faeculent matter. 
I now inquired into the supposed cause, which, like the last, I 
found perfectly satisfactory. This was one of a lot of lean Hereford 
beasts which the gentleman had bought a few days previously 
and put to barley straw, where he had overcharged his digestive 
organs, and impeded the functions of the rumen. I therefore had 
recourse to the stomach-pump (which no veterinary surgeon who 
practises among the ruminants ought to be one hour without), and 
injected a pail of warm water into the rumen, and then, reversing 
the key, pumped up a great quantity of food, consisting of the 
smaller particles of the straw. After this I administered sulph. 
mag. ^ viij, and sulph. lev. ^iv, in a quart of warm milk and water. 
I then withdrew my tube from the mouth, and administered enemas, 
which were as rapidly expelled, without being in the least dis- 
coloured with faeces. 
I now tried, with the assistance of some of the men, to get him 
up, but in vain : he raised his head occasionally to his left side, as 
if in pain, and his extremities had assumed a death-like coldness. 
The muzzle was dry and cold, and he moaned frequently. 
On staying with him, which I did for some time, I found that 
his left flank was at intervals tympanitic, but not to any extent; 
the enlargement would then subside, and he would have the ap- 
pearance of a fatted bullock. I gave a pint of castor oil, but still 
that side became inflated, and again subsided. I therefore re- 
solved, if it reappeared, to introduce the trocar. I did so, and it 
had the desired effect : a great portion of gas as well as straw 
soon escaped from the tube, and the beast in a few seconds rose 
voluntarily, and, walking round the yard, shortly afterwards began 
to void his faeces in a liquid form. Having closed the orifice with 
a little common pitch and tow, I ordered mashes and some gruel, 
and desired that the beast might be put into a warm hovel. 
March 1st, A.M. — All symptoms of drowsiness had subsided, 
and he had voided faeces during the night, but was rather inclined 
