OBSERVATIONS ON STERCORAL COLIC. 
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and rose again continually; at length remained down looking at 
his flank; and then it was with great difliculty that he could 
raise himself. Sometimes he would remain a long time sitting 
on his haunches, and in that position he took a little white water 
and searched for something to eat. 
He had mucilaginous drinks, &c. 
He became gradually worse until the fifth day; I then admi¬ 
nistered fifty grains of emetic tartar in an emollient decoction. 
Twelve hours afterwards, there being no change, I gave a second 
dose; some hours after that the horse was much agitated, 
and pawed with great violence. In the course of the sixth day 
there was an evacuation of a great quantity of half liquid foetid 
matter, of a very unpleasant and pungent smell. The evacua¬ 
tions, preceded by colicky pains, continued at least every hour, 
for four-and-twenty hours. The animal was dull—the pulse im¬ 
perceptible—and he frequently shivered all over. On the follow¬ 
ing day he was better; but he would take only a little white 
water. On the ninth day he began to eat; the dung was natu¬ 
rally formed ; and on the tenth day he was returned to his mas¬ 
ter, wdth a recommendation to permit him very slowly to return 
to his usual diet. 
CASE VII. 
An entire horse, seven years old, w^as seized with slight colicky 
pains, with loss of appetite, and heaving of the flanks. He was 
entrusted to the care of an empiric, \vho, for three days, gave 
him nothing but nutmegs, infused in wine, wdth a little brandy. 
He was then brought to me, and I recognized unequivocal 
symptoms of the existence of a stercoral concretion. Having 
tried the antiphlogistic treatment for four days without benefit, 
I administered fifty grains of tartarized antimony on the fifth 
day. Ten hours afterw ards there were copious and foetid evacu¬ 
ations, and in a few days he was well. 
CASE VIII. 
In this case, which was one of particular violence, and which 
scarcely left me a hope of doing good, I gave at once ninety 
grains of the emetic tartar: ten hours afterwards the horse began 
to purge, and the evacuations quickly followed each other; each 
preceded by colicky pains, for forty hours. At last the efforts 
were so frequent, that the animal suffered dreadfully. This su¬ 
perpurgation was combatted by the ordinary means ; the state of 
convalescence was very long, but at length the cure was complete. 
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