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CASE OF RUPTURE OF A PORTION OF THE 
COLON. 
By Mr. Dickens, V. -S’., Kimbolton. 
April 30^^, 1832.—I was called to see an aged cart horse, tlie 
property of a respectable farmer in this neighbourhood, that 
had, from his account, been griped at intervals for two days 
previously. I found him very uneasy, continually up and down, 
pulse 60, legs cold, and the feeces completely incased in mucus : 
I therefore began to treat it as a disease of the mucous coat of 
the intestine, ordering gruel three times per day, and adminis¬ 
tering ol. lini, Ibiss. VS. ibvj. 
May —More easy, but bowels not moved. R. hyd. sub- 
mur. 5j ; continue the gruel and enemas. 
May 2d .— Seems in great pain, constantly up and down. 
The medicine not acting, give ol. lini, Ibiss, and enemata. On 
passing my hand up the rectum, which I was induced to do from 
the clysters coming away almost colourless, I found it was com¬ 
pletely empty, with the exception of a nasty glairy mucus; I 
therefore concluded that some serious obstruction had taken 
place in a higher portion of the intestinal canal. 
May Sd .—Much as yesterday. Continue oil and gruel. 
May Ath .—Much the same, except that the abdomen has be¬ 
come much distended; and nothing having passed per rectum, 
I now anticipated the result, and recommended the owner to 
turn him out into a grass close, and leave him to nature (think¬ 
ing it possible that change of food might effect a change), where 
he remained eating the greater part of the day, and constantly 
straining behind, but without effect. He continued in that state 
until the next day, when he died. 
Post-mortem .—On opening the abdomen, a large rupture pre¬ 
sented itself in the most capacious part of the colon, sufficiently 
large to introduce the hand, and through which had protruded, 
at least, half a bushel of faecal matter: the intestines anterior 
to the diseased part were distended, and the remaining portion 
of the colon and rectum completely empty. The other organs 
were healthy, except the liver, which was of a light clay colour. 
A CASE OF GASTRITIS, ATTENDED WITH 
RUPTURE OF THE CAECUM. 
By the same. 
Dec. 29, 1832.—About eight in the morning my attendance 
was requested upon a bay hackney, 4 years old, the property of 
