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the hammer, nor do they feel unusually hot. The joints are 
perfectly free from heat, tumefaction, or tenderness; so that it 
cannot, I conceive, be any affection of those parts. Here, then, 
I am fixed in a professional labyrinth, hardly knowing what to 
do. Perhaps some of your readers may throw a little light upon 
the case at some future time. 
SINGULAR AND FATAL CASE OF VOMITION IN 
THE HORSE. 
Mr. J. J. Rogers, London. 
On Friday night, August 7th, 18B5, a roan horse at Mr. 
Busbridge’s livery stables, Gray’s Inn Road, was attacked by all 
the symptoms of gripes, for which he had an antispasmodic 
draught administered, and was bled by the proprietor. On the 
following morning he was much worse, and Mr. Langworthy 
(to whom I am an assistant) was sent for, who was told by the 
groom that the horse was sick, and vomiting frequently. 
Aware of what an unusual circumstance vomition in the horse 
is, we immediately went, and when we arrived he was discharging 
incessantly a yellow fluid, of a very offensive odour, in large 
streams from both nostrils, and which was marked by all that 
labour and distress that usually attends this morbid action in the 
human subject; a frothy mucus occasionally proceeded from 
the mouth ; the pulse was very indistinct, indeed, scarcely to be 
felt; and the horse was evidently sinking fast. A draught com¬ 
posed of ammonice carb. ^j, and p. opii grs. x, was immediately 
administered, and repeated, but with no avail, as the horse died 
between seven and eight o’clock the same evening, after having 
voided two or three gallons of the fluid in the course of the day. 
Post-mortem Examination .—On opening the abdomen, the 
stomach, contrary to what is the usual case, was found distended 
almost to bursting (and which, no doubt, would have been the 
case had it not been relieved by vomition): the small intestines 
also were very full; and a part, I should think about a yard,of 
the ileum was joined to the colon by adhesions formed by a portion 
of the mesentery, and contracted and entangled into a complete 
mass of folds, and which blocked up the passage of the alimen¬ 
tary canal at that part. The villous coats of the stomach and 
small intestines were much inflamed. The intestines posterior 
to the obstruction were comparatively flaccid and em})ty, a few 
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