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TREATMENT OF TWIST OF THE COLON. 
followed, after which firm excreta were passed. The restlessness decreased, 
and after a short time entirely disappeared, whilst the pulse recovered its 
normal condition, and the mucous membrane lost its redness. In an hour, 
pain was entirely gone. 
Other forms of displacement of the bowel in horses have not yet been 
surgically treated, if we except Meschkow’s case, in which the rectum 
was strangulated by coils of small intestine. Meschkow performed 
laparotomy, reduced the strangulation, and the horse recovered. 
