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100—Appearance dull and listless—Extremities cold—No evacu¬ 
ation of faeces. V. S. to three quarts—A mustard embrocation 
to be rubbed upon the abdomen—Continue clysters, &c. I did not 
expect him to live until morning. 
11th. The farmer crane to tell me the horse was purging, free 
from pain, and had eaten some hay and drunk a little warm 
water. Not wishing to interfere with this action of the bowels, I 
merely directed some warm bran-mashes to be given, if the horse 
would eat them ; and if not, some gruel to be horned down. 
12th. Upon my return from a long journey I found a message 
left for me to see the subject of the present case, which I imme¬ 
diately did, it being 4 o’clock P.M., and found him with a pulse 
120 in a minute, respiration quick and laborious, extremities 
cold, and a death-like appearance of countenance, that con¬ 
vinced me he could not live long At ten the same night he 
died. 
Inspectio Cadaveris. —Bowels inflamed in patches; the colon 
was distended, and when pressed upon, a firm tumour could be 
distinctly felt inside of it, which when the gut (the colon) was 
slit up, proved to be the entire caecum completely inverted (inside 
out), and thus lying within the colon in a state of high inflam¬ 
mation, and in some pails of a livid and almost gangrenous appear¬ 
ance. When the caecum was • cut through, the peritoneal coat, 
with its longitudinal bands, &c. was the internal one, and 
exhibited a slight appearance of inflammation, and satisfactorily 
showed the nature of the disease. That introsusception of the 
small intestines occasionally happens, I am perfectly aware, 
and have seen a case or two of this nature; but it is entirely new 
to me that the whole caecum should be inverted, like the finger 
of a glove, through the aperture with which it communicates with 
the colon, and of course turned inside out into that gut. 
1 am, Mr. Editor, 
Your’s, Sic. 
J. M. Hales. 
Oswestry, 
May 18 , 1829 . 
ON TIIE NATURE AND TREATMENT OF SPLENT 
IN THE HORSE. 
Bi/ Mr. Alexander Henderson, Veterinary Surgeon. 
London. 
[Read at the Veterinary Medical Society, Feb. d, 182b.] 
Gentle m i;n, 
IT is my wish this evening to draw your attention to a dis¬ 
ease to which the bones of the luftfse appear to be particularly 
