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A SINGULAR CASE OF 
I sent for two medical men who lived in the town, and with 
whom I was on friendly terms. One of them immediately stripped 
off his coat, and introduced his hand up the rectum. He soon 
found the stricture, at the distance from the anus which I had 
pointed out; and then, by using a great deal of force, he got his 
hand through it. He earnestly advised me to pursue the same 
treatment as before, with the addition of applying the iodine oint¬ 
ment to the stricture every morning, and opium and lard every 
night. I had her in a barn at a short distance from the house, and 
at the request of the surgeon sent my young man to abstract a little 
blood, in order to ascertain what effect the loss of blood might have 
in relaxing the stricture. He had not obtained more than a pint, 
when she dropped and died. 
She was examined on the next morning, in the presence of both 
the medical men. Every part, with the exception of its being 
almost bloodless, was healthy, except the rectum, and that, through¬ 
out nearly its whole extent, was perfectly black. It was thickened 
from one end to the other, and for a foot before and behind the 
stricture the morbid thickness was more than an inch. The stric¬ 
ture itself was of a cartilaginous nature, with a deposit of bone at 
its base, and extending some way up its projecting edges. 
A SINGULAR CASE OF CALCULUS IN A HORSE. 
By Mr. W. Richardson, V.S., Peterborough. 
A BROWN cart horse, thirteen years of age, the property of Ed¬ 
ward Compton, Esq., was attacked on the evening of Friday, June 
5th, 1840, with symptoms of colic, and some antispasmodic medi¬ 
cine was sent home by the servant for him. 
I received a message on the following morning from Mr. C., 
informing me that the horse was still in pain, and requesting me to 
ride over and see him. On my arrival, I found him down, but not 
apparently suffering very acutely. His pulse was not more than 
45, and full; his ears and extremities were warm, and his breath¬ 
ing was not materially affected. He had been seen to stale, but 
no dung had been ejected since prior to his attack on the previous 
evening I immediately examined him per rectum, and succeeded 
in withdrawing several pieces of hardened faeces, which were 
thickly coated with inspissated mucus. Some purgative medicine 
was administered, combined with ammon. subcarb. and zingib. A 
stimulating embrocation was applied to the abdomen. Enemata 
were ordered to be thrown up, and some linseed gruel to be offered 
him. > 
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