334 STRANGFLATION OF THE ILEUM IN A STEER. 
national pride, the writers of our own country. One maintains 
that there are in the horse two sorts of blood—the vital blood, 
and the general mass of blood—and that the vital blood alone 
circulates while the animal sleeps;—another affirms that there 
goes from the head of the horse a white nerve, which takes its 
origin from the tip of the nose, goes along the upper part of the 
neck, follows the spine of the back and the fore limbs, and 
extends to the extremities of the feet! 
Such was veterinary science before the establishment of the 
first modern school. 
Tm Matihe Medicale Haisonnee , , 
STRANGULATION OF THE ILEUM IN A STEER. 
JBj/ Mr. Firman Fuller, F.^., Marchy Cambridgeshire. 
On the 25th of January last, I was sent for to attend a four- 
year old Irish steer. The shepherd informed me that he found 
him in the morning cast under a gate in the yard ; he had evi¬ 
dently been in that situation the greater part of the night, from 
the bruises which appeared about him. When I first saw him, 
his sufferings seemed to be very great. He would frequently 
strike his belly with his hind legs. When laid down, he was 
frequently shifting his position, and straining hard to void 
small quantities of feculent matter mixed with mucus. His 
pulse was quick ; his muzzle dry ; eyes sunk in their orbits ; 
rumination suspended ; and respiration hurried. I abstracted 
twelve pounds of blood ; gave him mag. sulph. Ihj, sulphur Ifess, 
pot. nitrat. 3ss, in some warm gruel; administered an enema of 
gruel, and ordered six quarts of gruel to be horned down at 
night. 
26M.—Very little alteration in the symptoms, with the ex¬ 
ception of being a little hoven: he has not eaten any thing, 
and has no feculent discharge. I gave him ol. lini. Ihiss, and 
repeated the drink and enema as yesterday. The shepherd in¬ 
formed me that the enema was returned shortly after I left him, 
without any faeces. 
27th .—He has not eaten or drunk any thing; he is constantly 
down, and mourns incessantly, and has had no discharge from 
the bowels. I w^as now led to suspect that very obstinate ob¬ 
struction existed in some part of the intestinal canal; and 
I informed my employer that there was little chance of success, 
and, unless the beast shortly changed for the better, it w'ould be 
advisable to consign him to the butcher. 
