.320 STRICTURED AND STRANGULATED INTESTINE. 
iiated together by adhesive matter, that not only was there no 
chance of their righting themselves of their own accord, but so as 
to lender their unravelling a perplexing affair after they were 
removed from the body. So effectual was the stricture, that even 
the flatus contained within the strangulated portion of gut could 
not be forced th* ■ yh it into the sound canal. The gut itself was 
nearly black, and had suffered much in its firmness of nature 
from inflammation and approaching gangrene : it contained some 
dark-coloured fluid blood, but scarcely any alimentary matter. 
3 mesenteric chord / • 
2 mesentery hiiin^ the 
interspaces 
CASE JI. 
The following case of ^^strangulated rectum” was communicated 
by Chas. Percivall, V. S. Otli Dragroons, and occurred 
during his station in India 
A horse belonging to Captain C-’s troop was reported 
by the farrier to have an attack of spasms, to which he observed 
he had formerly been very subject. 
On visiting him, I found him labouring under enteritis. A small 
and quick pulse; respiration difficult; extremities cold; the sur¬ 
face of the body bedewed with cold sweats; and costive state of 
body—expressing great pain, by frequently lying down and 
getting up. Being in very high condition, I ordered him to lose 
eight quarts of blood, a stimulating embrocation to be applied to 
the surface of the abdomen ,* to have aloes 3j in decoction ; and 
injections to be thrown up every half hour: legs to be bandaged. 
Upon seeing him about an hour afterwards, the farrier in 
attendance informed me, that in performing the operation pre¬ 
paratory" to administering the enema, he felt on the Rear side a 
large tumour, or, as he expressed it, a hard lump. I desired him 
to repeat the operation of raking, and to make use of gentle 
pressure to the tumour, conceiving it might possibly be the bladder, 
which, from over-distension, was rendered incapable of contracting 
upon its contents, and that gentle pressure might be the means of 
enabling it to overcome its morbidly distended condition : this was 
accordingly done, but without affording the slightest relief. 
I ordered the enemas to be continued: but he died within the 
space of two hours from the time he was taken ill. 
