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ENTANGLEMENT, STRICTURE, &C. 
Relations. —Inferiorly, with the floor of the orbit; superior!’; 
with the aponeurotic tendon of the depressor ; internally, wit 
the lachrymal sac. 
Structure. —Fleshy, included within a fibrous sheath. 
RETRACTOR Vel RECTUS POSTERIOR OCULI. 
Situation. —Behind the eyeball. 
Figure. —That of a hollow cone, with its base turned forward, 1 
Attachment. —To the edge immediately surrounding the opti 
foramen; and to the posterior third of the entire superficies of tb 
globe of the eye. 
Relations. —Around its sides are the four straight muscles ( 
the eye, and in the interspaces a quantity of adipose matter 
through its middle runs the optic nerve. 
Direction .—Radiated: the fibres diverging from the opti 
foramen as a centre, and spreading upon the surface of the glob* 
Structure. —Posterior attachment, tendinous and fleshy: re 
maunder, fleshy. 
[To be continued.] 
©ommuntcattonsf aniJ ©astsJ. 
Ars veterinaria post medicinam secunda est.— Veyetius. 
ENTANGLEMENT, STRICTURE, AND STRANGULA 
TION OF THE INTESTINES OF THE HORSE. 
By Mr. W. J. Goodwin, M.R.C.S. and Veterinary 
Surgeon to the King. 
To the Editors of u The Veterinarian.” 
Gentlemen, 
ALLOW me, through the medium of your Journal, to commu 
nicate a case of strangulated intestines, from rather an unusus 
cause, that occurred in my practice during the month of Jun 
last. 
On the 3d instant, about twelve o’clock at night, I was calle' 
upon by one of the grooms to attend a horse in a *' fit of gripes, 
as he described; and on coming to the stable in which the hors 
stood, I observed the quantity of dung made since stable hour t 
be much greater than ordinary; but, conceiving the attack t 
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