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viz., a plentiful supply of good hay during the winter, especially 
in situations where grass is not sufficiently abundant, with warm 
sheds to fold them in during the nights, and to screen them 
from any accidental storms that may happen in the day. By 
attention to this, farmers would not have to complain of so many 
losses in the spring and summer ; and the veterinary surgeon 
would not meet with so many cases of obstinate and irremediable 
diarrhoeas, coughs, 8cc. produced from maltreatment during 
that inclement season, and which only awaited an exciting cause, 
viz., fresh grass, or variable and increased temperature, in order 
to become more perfectly developed in all animals whose organic 
powers have not been able to withstand the shocks of absurd 
deprivation and severity. There are other animals, however, 
whose constitutional powers are stronger, and that have only 
been in part subdued, and gradually repair similar ravages by 
partaking of that aliment sent and ordained for their use and 
well-being by an all-wise and beneficent Creator. 
These observations have been painfully forced upon my mind 
by the numerous applications which have been and still are made 
to me, to remedy coughs, diarrhoeas, constipation, &c.; the causes 
of which I can trace to no other circumstances than those I have 
mentioned. Should what I have advanced be deemed worthy 
of insertion in The V eterinarian, it may be a means of stimu¬ 
lating others, more competent than myself, to further researches 
into this most important part of cattle practice. 
A CASE OF STRANGULATED RECTUM IN A HORSE. 
On the 5th of November last I was called upon to attend an 
aged horse, apparently labouring under enteritis. After bleeding 
and administering the usual remedies, no abatement of symptoms 
took place, and he lingered on until the 8th, when he died. 
He had not passed any faeces from the commencement to his 
death; for the injections which were thrown up were quickly re¬ 
turned, bringing with them a quantity of very white coagulum. 
When I had thrust my hand up the rectum as far as I could 
reach, I found that the gut was much contracted; indeed,it would 
hardly admit a finger. On examination after death, I found a 
perfect strictureof the rectum : the gut was altogether impervious. 
It was produced by a little pendulous tumour of adipose matter, 
which by some means had been entangled round the rectum; 
and on different parts both of the small and large intestines, 
there were found several other little accumulations of fat, which ' 
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