STRICTURED AND STRANGULATED INTESTINE. 327 
Post mortem examination, —I found extensive inflammation 
throughout the whole of the intestinal canal, but principally of 
the colon and rectum, evidently arising from the latter being 
twisted and doubled back into the pelvis, foraiing a sort of 
pouch, resembling in colour a piece of scarlet silk, eflectually ob¬ 
structing the intestinal canal; and immediately above this stran¬ 
gulated portion there was a large quantity of hardened foeces. 
The rectum was twisted in the manner here represented. 
Another horse, belonging to the same troop, attacked with pre¬ 
cisely the same symptoms, and in which the same treatment was 
adopted, died within three hours; and upon examination exhibited 
the same appearances as the preceding case. 
Observations, —The above are the most recent cases of this de¬ 
scription which have come within my knowledge; but it would 
require very little search or inquiry to make great additions to 
them; inversion, involution, invagination, introsusception. See. 
being all accidents of the same class, tending to the same dreaded 
consequences, and therefore to be included in our account. They 
constitute, altogether, a branch of'pathology of very serious im¬ 
portance indeed; for they are, but too often, hardly less dubious 
and obscure in their very presence than in their origin; and even 
could they be with, certainty detected, would they cease to harass 
the mind in devising expedients byway of remedy ? To add to these 
perplexities (as if it were the intention of our art rather to conceal 
than unravel mystery—to furnish a cloak for ignorance rather than 
provoke inquiry by candid acknowledgment), these grievous and 
hidden maladies have been huddled together, and confounded 
under that vulgar unmeaning tenn gripes.’’ Really and truly 
this is a griping evil, and one, I regret to add, that veterinpaians 
of high authority have perpetuated, by giving assent in common 
colloquy to that which, on reflection, they must see the vital neces- 
