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forward into the epigastric region, and into the uppermost part 
of it; and there had insinuated itself into the aperture or inter¬ 
space which is by nature formed but large enough to admit the 
passage of the duodenum alone; thereby crowding three por¬ 
tions of intestine into the space allotted only for one . This occa¬ 
sioned stricture; stricture became the cause of strangulation; 
strangulation of obstructed passage and circulation;* and ob¬ 
structed circulation of mortification of these portions of gut; of 
which the animal died. 
Reflections. 
1 he perusal of the foregoing detail cannot fail to strike our 
readers with the similarity which it bears to the case related last 
month by Mr. Goodwin. In a pathological point of view, the 
two cases exactly correspond : at the same time, they, neither of 
them, amount to anything more than what has already been de¬ 
tailed in the pages of this Journal, by M. Renault, Mr. Chas. 
Percivall, and myself*. So far how r ever, in my mind, is this 
from any argument for withholding such communications, that I 
would even say it had, or ought to have, directly the reverse 
effect. Cases of the kind never ought to be allowed to go by un¬ 
published; and he who does treat them in this indifferent man¬ 
ner, may live for himself, but certainly cannot have at heart either 
the good of his profession or the welfare of the animal he lives 
by administering to. For my own part, I have kept a record of 
remarkable cases ever since I left the Veterinary College; and to 
myself I have found it of signal service, without any reference 
whatever to the entertainment or information their perusal might 
at any time have afforded others, to whom it ever gave me much 
gratification to communicate them. 
Such cases asYhe one just narrated certainly, in the present 
state of our art, admit of no remedy; but I cannot take upon 
myself to assert that they ever must remain remedyless. No! 
taking into account the late rapid strides that science has been 
taking, it is more than I dare say. When many put their 
shoulders to the wheel, great is the load they may and must 
succeed in moving. The remedy may appear to us, at the pre¬ 
sent day, without the pale of human aid or art; and so it most 
incontestibly is, of present art; but, since we can sail by steam; 
travel the roads without horses; and rinse out our stomachs as 
w ? w r ould a pitcher, who can take upon himself to say that there 
will not be some method or means devised to rectify an entangled 
or strictured intestine? Until which day arrives, I shall feci it 
v itle Vol. I ol this Journal, pages 525 et seq.; 3?9 et seq. 
