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CASES OF INDIGESTION. 
By the same . 
In the months of May and June I had a great number of 
cases of what I believe to be indigestion. The following were 
the general symptoms:—the cows failed in quantity of milk fora 
meal or two ; the coat stared ; some expressed pain, as if griped ; 
the pulse was but little affected; the ears were badly swelled ; 
and the extremities rather cool. A purgative of salts and oil 
was given, to which from two to four ounces of spirits of turpen¬ 
tine were added ; some cordial powder was given, night and 
morning, in gruel; and they very soon recovered. 
A CASE OF POLYPUS IN THE STOMACH OF A 
HORSE. 
By Mr. Brown, F.&., Melton Mowbray. 
I have a preparation of a polypus which was taken out of a 
horse’s stomach, and given to me by a groom, who, I may add, 
is a respectable and observing man. Should you think his 
statement worthy of your notice, you will give it a place in your 
Journal. 
About half past four o’clock in the morning of the 1st of May, 
1832, the groom found the old brown horse Sheffield apparently 
labouring under an attack of the bowels, which he describes as 
follows : “The horse was continually lying down and getting up, 
and, to all appearance, he had been doing so for some hours ; his 
pulse was from 70 to 80 ; patches of cold sweat were on different 
parts of the body. There was no veterinarian in attendance, 
but the horse w T as largely bled; oily purgatives w r ere given every 
three or four hours, with frequent laxative clysters, which did not 
afford any relief, but the pain became more violent, and he died 
about seven in the morning of the 6th. On opening the body, 
the bowels were free from disease, except the first small gut, 
which was mortified about fifteen inches ; the stomach was full, 
but its contents were liquid, and at the lower extremity there 
was a pendulous substance, which was plugged into the gut, 
totally obstructing the passage.” I am informed that the animal 
was a remarkably healthy one, and apparently suffered no incon¬ 
venience from the polypus until it formed a mechanical ob¬ 
struction to the pylorus. The pedicle is rather tortuous, with 
