AND ONK OF (ESOPHAGOTOAn^ IN AN ASS. 
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tallied that the foetus was dead. I was, therefore, obliged to have 
recourse to the knife, with which I took off the hind leg at the 
hock. I then found that the foal was much swollen, and had to 
take off the entire fore-leg and shoulder; and, lastly, I was com¬ 
pelled to introduce a sharp-pointed bistoury, and remove the in¬ 
testines, when, with some exertion, I drew out the remaining 
parts; after which, she was greatly exhausted, and fainted. I 
then gave her the following draught;—Tinct. opii 5 V., brandy 
5 iv, and aq. pur. 3 viij, which allayed the straining, and enabled 
me to clean out the uterus. At the expiration of an hour, the 
pulse began to rise with much rapidity, and I took away ten 
pounds of blood. 
\Qth .—I abstracted eight pounds more of blood, and gave Jfej 
ol. ricini. 
\lth .—The pulse had again risen, and I withdrew six pounds 
of blood, and gave the following draught:—Tinct. opii §ij, tinct. 
assafoetid. §ss, sulp. magnes. Ibss., aq. pur. Ihj. 
\Sth .—The pulse had subsided to 45. Keep her on gruel and 
mash diet. 
19M.—She was convalescent. 
Three weeks afterwards I was called to the same mare. She 
had dreadful straining at the vagina, and I feared that the uterus 
was diseased. I introduced my hand, and I suppose must have 
broken into some cyst, for a large quantity of yellow matter came 
away. I bled her, and gave her a laxative ball. She recovered, 
has since had a foal, and has been stinted again this year. 
On June 10, 1835, I was called to an ass, the property of the 
Rev. Mr. Harris, of Elton Arklow, county of Wicklow. He was 
choking from a potatoe in the gullet. I tried the probang and 
screw, but without success. I then cast him, and cut down on 
the potatoe, and removed it; after which I sewed up the wound, 
and ordered him gruel. In fifteen days he was fit to work, and 
still lives, not in the slightest degree the worse for what he suf¬ 
fered. There was nothing peculiar in this operation, except that I 
believe him to be the first of his species on record, on whom 
oesophagotomy has been performed. 
[There are several instances on record of the performance of oesophago¬ 
tomy on the mule and on the bull. The Editor of this periodical once per¬ 
formed it with success on a ram. The crop of fowls is often opened with 
good effect. 
A French journal gives a very interesting account of this operation. It 
was practised for the removal of a tumour embedded in the parietes of the 
oesophagus. A ram had, without any apparent cause, been ill during several 
days. He was rapidly losing flesh, and, during the last fortnight, had vo¬ 
mited the greater part of the food which he gathered in the pasture. A 
veterinary surgeon, M. Dandricu, was consulted. The animal now began 
