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proceed from spasm, I immediately administered the medicine I 
make use of in such cases, viz., oil of turpentine, both in the 
form of drink, and also in clysters. 
The horse was rolling about violently, and frequently looking 
back at his flanks with a peculiar anxiety in his countenance. 
The pulse full, but not at all accelerated. I desired the groom 
to walk him about, to prevent any mischief that might arise from 
the violence with which he was throwing himself down, and 
making efforts to lie upon his back. 
At three o’clock, a. m., the symptoms not being at all abated, 
the horse was removed to a loose place, and I passed my hand 
and arm into the rectum, but without finding any faeces what¬ 
ever. I then administered a smaller quantity of turpentine, with 
a dose of Genoa oil, and repeated the clyster. 
At six o’clock, all the symptoms continuing, and the pulse 
being quickened, I bled my patient; but had scarcely drawn six 
pounds of blood before I felt the pulse so subdued, that I thought 
it prudent to desist from taking a larger quantity. At the same 
time I gave an ounce of laudanum in some gruel, and the same 
quantity in the form of injection. The sufferings of the animal 
were most distressing to witness. The blood presented no ap¬ 
pearance of buff. The symptoms and violent pain continuing, 
without the characteristics of inflammation supervening, I began 
to suspect that introsusception of the bowels had taken place. 
I procured a sheepskin, taken from an animal just killed to 
furnish it, and applied it warm to the horse’s abdomen. It had 
the effect of producing profuse perspiration, but otherwise gave 
no relief. 
Opium, combined with small doses of antimony, I was now 
advised to try the effect of, but with no avail: the clysters also 
were the while repeated. 
At two o’clock, p. m., from the pulse being scarcely perceptible 
at the jaw, it was evident the horse was not in a state to survive 
long. He continued to roll about in the greatest agony, till death 
put an end to his sufferings, about five o’clock the same after¬ 
noon, seventeen hours from the commencement of the attack. 
On opening the cavity of the abdomen, two hours after death, 
which 1 did by carrying an incision through the linea alba, from 
the ensiform cartilage to the pubes (the carcase lying upon the 
back, and supported in that position for the purposes of exami¬ 
nation), I was surprised by the remarkable appearance of a line 
of intestine commencing in the epigastric region, and continuing 
the same till lost in the convolutions of the large intestines, in the 
vicinity of the pelvis. The colon was nearly black, its coats 
almost three times their natural thickness: and its cavity filled 
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