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A is vetcrinaria post medicinam secunda cst.— Veyetius. 
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INTROSUSCEPTION OF THE CAECUM. \ 
To the Editor oj u The Veterinarian.” 
Sir, 
AS there is an extraordinary circumstance connected with the 
subjoined case, I shall be obliged by its insertion in “ Tiie 
Veterinarian.” 
Upon the 9th of February last I was required to attend.a five- 
year-old cart horse, the property of a farmer two miles from this 
town. I saw the case at 3 P.M., and was informed that the wag¬ 
goner found the horse ill upon his first going to the stable in the 
morning. Some common remedies, such as salt and water, &c. had 
been used, and the horse bled. He is suffering from paroxysms 
of spasmodic cholic, some of them very violent, others compara¬ 
tively slight, with perfect and considerable intermissions. Passed 
fseces in good quantity shortly after I went into the stable, and 
the attendants said he had done so several times in the clay— 
Urine voided freely. Pulse fifty-four—Extremities tolerably 
warm. A medicine, composed of sp. terebinth. 5iv, tinct. opii ^ij, 
was given in warm water—Friction to be applied to the abdomen, 
and large injections of salt and water to be thrown up every 
hour. 
6 P.M. The attacks of pain are as violent, but the intervals 
of ease longer—He seems drowsy (probably from the opium)— 
Pulse getting up—feces have come away with the glysters—V. S. 
to three quarts—(Horse thin, and of delicate constitution)—A 
warming-pan lull of hot coals to be continually passed over the 
abdomen. R. Aloes Bds. 3 v; pulv. opii 3j : one half to be 
given now, and the other in two hours—Glysters, &c. to be 
continued. I now left the case, with directions to be informed of 
its progress in four hours, but received no further information of 
it until next day. 
10th. 10 A.M. The owner informed me that the horse became 
easier at ten o’clock last night; and although he has still occa¬ 
sional fits of pain, they are neither so frequent nor so violent— 
Has passed no dung, except what returns with the clysters. 
R. Aloes -ij, 01. ricini fbfs. statim. 
3 P.M. Saw the horse-. Does not suffer much pain. Pulse 
