380 SINGULAR DISEASE IN A COLT. 
somewhat smaller. The puncture is made in the middle of the 
right flank, for there the large intestines are more easily reached. 
It is usually the origin of the ascending portion of the colon, or 
the base of the caecum, that is pierced. 
If puncture of the rumen is attended with little danger, this 
cannot be affirmed of the large intestines of the horse ; for, in the 
great majority of cases, the patient has afterwards died of peri¬ 
tonitis, or of some serious abdominal complaint. It is only when 
the practitioner despairs of otherwise saving the life of the animal 
that this operation should be attempted. 
Eleniens de Falhol. Vet., vol. ii, p. 296. 
INFLAMMATION OF THE FORE-AKM AND JOINTS, 
AND INTROSUSCEPTION OF THE ILEUM, IN A 
COLT FIVE WEEKS OLD. 
jBj/ Mr. W. A. Cartwright, Whitchurch. 
About five o’clock on Sunday morning, June the 7th, 1835, 
Mr. Wilson, of this town, discovered a colt of his, five weeks 
old, that was suckled by the mare in the field, and which had 
been perfectly well overnight, to be evidently ill. I saw it at eight 
in the morning ; it was then standing up, but could scarcely 
stir, in consequence of being very much swelled from the scapula 
to the knee, but especially all round the radius. His respiration 
was extremely quick, and his pulse full, rapid, and bounding. 
I ordered him to be brought out of the field (the weather being 
extremely hot) and to be put into a cool stable. I took a quart 
of blood from him, made five or six punctures into the oedema- 
tous parts, gave him alterative fever medicine, and ordered the 
parts to be continually fomented. 
9 p.M.—The same. I abstracted half a pint more blood. 
8 A.M. —The respiration still very quick, and the pulse rapid 
and small; but the limb is not quite so large, in consequence of 
the discharge from the punctures. I took nearly a pint more 
blood, and continued the medicine. He remained in nearly the 
same state until about seven o’clock the next morning, when he 
died. 
No faeces w'ere voided durino; his illness. 
Examination .—All round the radius there w’as much serous 
distention, in a great measure approaching to suppuration or 
gangrene. It would appear that it was the cellular tissue and 
fasciae of the parts that were principally afl’ected, as the muscles 
retained their natural appearance and colour. 
