100 STRANGULATION OF THE RECTUM, &C. 
given in the night, and also a strong liquid blister to be rubbed 
on the abdomen, not expecting to find him alive in the morning. 
26^/', 7 A.M. —Worse. Nothing has yet been voided from the 
bowels, but he has mined twice—has been restless and 
agitated during the whole of the night; the pulse cannot 
be felt at the jaw, and is not more than about 50 at the heart. 
The breathing is stertorous, and the belly now swelled. In a 
quarter of an hour after I now saw him; he got up, staggered about, 
tumbled against the stall, fell down, lay awhile, struggled, and 
died in great agony. During the whole time he never sweated 
in the least. 
Post-mortem Examination .—The colon and cmcum were highly 
inflamed, their muscular coats congested, and the others highly 
tinged. These intestines were filled with faeces, and the smaller 
ones had also contained some, but in all of them it was quite 
soft, and, in a manner, in a liquid state. Two feet of the rectum, 
about two yards from the anus, were twisted and strangulated, 
and filled with hard dry fasces, but it was not to any great 
degree diseased or inflamed. There was not any dung in the 
rectum posteriorly to the strangulated portion. This, no doubt, 
would have been a good case to have used the patent syringe, 
if I had then had one. 
ABSCESS ON THE SPINAL MARROW. 
By the same. 
A CHAISE-HORSE has had a puffy tumour, the size of an egg, 
for the last two or three years, just over between the first and 
second bones of the lumbar vertebrae, and rather on one side, but 
which appears not to have caused lameness or perceptible pain : it 
was not sore, nor considered by her farrier to contain matter ; but, 
one day in the month of June last, 1834, the horse was fetched 
up out of a field adjoining the house where he had been feeding, 
and seemed in perfect health, when on coming quietly up to the 
yard he made a bit of a stumble, fell down, and instantly ex¬ 
pired. The owner washed me to examine him, in order to find 
out the cause of his sudden death. 
Examination on the Jolloiving morning .—On laying open the 
abovementioned tumour, it was found to contain about ^ij of 
matter, of a creamy consistence and colour: this was contained in 
a sort of cyst, from which there was a small opening that a probe 
could just be introduced into, and which continued for about 
half an inch, where it opened into another abscess close upon the 
spinal chord, and which seemed to have burst and discharged 
