414 STRANGULATION OF THE BOWELS IN THE HORSE. 
and took four quarts of blood from him : raked, and walked 
about o'ccasionally. 
Ten. —No better. Rolls about a good deal on his back, and 
quite over, but does not get up and lie down as horses gene¬ 
rally do with enteritis. Pulse at times quick, but at others much 
abated and more natural: breaks wind occasionally, and has 
voided water twice. 
Twelve at night. —About the same. He during most of the 
time, and almost up to his death, shook his tail downwards, like 
one frightening flies from his thighs. Looks very heavy, and his 
respiration is quickened: I have very little doubt that inflam¬ 
mation has taken place from some cause. 
Bled to ten pounds, Avhich was but little buffed, and soon 
coagulated, and the blood drawn before did not shew the least 
sign of inflammation. Rubbed a strong liquid blister on the 
abdomen, which caused great irritation in the system, and in¬ 
creased the respiration and pulse much, the latter becoming audi¬ 
ble at some distance from him, but in about half an hour after 
all subsided. 1 gave him clysters every half hour. 
Two A.M. —About the same. I gave him four ounces of castor 
oil, and four ounces of common oil. 
Three a.m. —Is easier, and stands up for a quarter and some¬ 
times for half an hour, but the pulse gets quicker and smaller. 
Five to eight a.m. —During the greater part of this time he 
was standing tolerably easy; is weak to tottering, and in an 
apparent stupid listless way, unmoved by any noise or circum¬ 
stance; and about eight o’clock he fell down suddenly, and died 
instantly. 
Examination. —The intestines were distended with flatus, and 
at about three or four yards from the stomach (in length from it) 
a part of the small ones was twisted twice quite over like a link of 
a chain, and a band of the mesentery was also pressing strongly 
upon the twisted part, and also on another portion of intestine, 
so as to produce complete strangulation and stoppage of them. 
The lengths strangulated were about a yard each, highly inflamed, 
and distended with air and bloody fluid. The mesentery bind¬ 
ing the intestines was quite black, and so were other parts of it 
that were near. 
The stomach was filled with digested grass, and contained three 
or four round worms and some bots. The sensible portion was , 
highly inflamed and abraded, most probably from the turpen¬ 
tine, &c. 
The duodenum. —On cutting through the commencement of 
this intestine, it was found to be quite stuffed with red bots in 
clusters (about 150), and with white round worms (about 150) 
