413 
OBSTRUCTION* &C. OF THE MANYPLUS. 
the short time the disease had developed itself; but its progress 
had been very rapid. In the abdomen, the stomach appeared 
healthy, but the liver was diseased : there was a sac resembling 
a gall-bladder full of bile. The kidneys appeared healthy, but 
larger than I had ever seen them. The emulgent arteries and 
veins were larger than usual, and so were the ureters, and also 
the bladder; yet there was no apparent disease in them. The 
womb was healthy, but the ovaries were indurated. 
ON OBSTRUCTION AND INFLAMMATION OF THE 
MANYPLUS. 
By Mr. James Horsburgh, V.S. Arniston, N.B. 
Having for about three years been a reader of The Veteri¬ 
narian, and having derived much useful information from its 
pages, I have often thought of sending you some remarks on 
diseases that have come under my observation; but I have been 
deterred by the fear of not being duly qualified for the task, and 
that my contributions would not be so well taken as if they ema¬ 
nated from a more scientific practitioner. I have only to boast 
of the appellation of farrier, and (though I always try to do my 
best) like many of my neighbours, I am sometimes successful, 
and sometimes fail. Having attended Mr. Dick's lectures some 
years ago, and having now passed my first year as a regular 
student, I have at length summoned sufficient courage to offer 
you the following remarks on the diseases of cattle. 
First, I would speak of inflammation of the stomachs , and par¬ 
ticularly of the manyplus , or rather, what I consider obstruction 
in the stomachs , producing inflammation . The symptoms are 
well pointed out by Mr. Friend, in the number for April 1833, 
p. 201, and in which he says, that the cure is sometimes perfectly 
effected by powerfully evacuating the stomach and intestines. 
This is certainly the case; for in most instances, when early 
and full evacuation has been obtained, a cure has been the con¬ 
sequence; but if otherwise, the disease has been fatal. I have 
always considered the obstinate constipation to be the cause, and 
not the effect of the inflammation generally found on a post¬ 
mortem examination. This, I suppose, is contrary to the opi¬ 
nion of the greater number of better informed practitioners, 
whose theory is, that inflammation produces that obstruction. 
I have also reason to suppose that the treatment of the cow, 
after calving, is (in most cases that I have seen) the primary 
cause. I do not remember to have seen a case before calving, 
or where the cow was left nearly in a state of nature. 
VOL. VII. 3 II 
