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winter. I have in several instances operated in the same place, 
without any ill consequence. 
Q uer y: — \ n reality, are the ill consequences to be dreaded as 
some veterinarians have imagined, by operating above the part 
where the nerves divide at the fetlock joint ? 
TUMOUR AND STRICTURE IN THE SMALL 
INTESTINES. 
By the same . 
During the summer of 1827, I attended a horse that was con¬ 
tinually attacked with the usual symptoms of spasmodic colic, 
except that the pulse varied from 70 to 80, and was remarkably 
thready. At first I bled freely, and administered stimulants, but 
soon found that aperients w r ere much better; and I gave six 
drachms of aloes (Barb.) in solution. He was a half bred horse, 
twelve years old, fifteen hands high, and was attacked every tw T o 
or three days, or as soon as the laxatives employed had ceased to 
operate, therefore I found it necessary constantly to keep the 
bowels in a lax state. I had from the first suspected that there 
must be some obstruction in the alimentary canal. 
On the 8th of September was the last time he had any attack 
at home, and his general health had seemed much better than for 
some time up to the 16th, when his proprietor applied to me, to 
know if I thought he might use him : I told him that he might, 
if he would drive him gently. On that day he drove him very 
slowly about fifteen miles, aud fed him as usual with a bran 
mash and his feed of oats in it. The ostler gave him a little hay, 
which produced another attack that lasted two hours ; and the 
next morning, as he was returning home, after coming the first 
four miles very well, he had a second attack, under which he died 
at a little inn ten miles from my residence. 
At the gentleman’s request, I went over, and examined him ; 
and on opening the abdomen, the caecum and colon presented 
a perfectly healthy appearance, as well as the rectum, and in no 
part was the peritoneum inflamed except at the stricture and 
the covering the tumour, of which 1 shall presently speak. 
At about six inches from the pyloric orifice of the stomach, there 
was a stricture in the duodenum, and there were six others in the 
course of the small intestines. About the middle of the jejunum, 
was a tumour ten inches in circumference. On cutting through 
it there was the appearance of a schirrous gland, and the villous 
coat of the intestine running through it, in a highly-gangrenous 
