CASE OF ENTANGLEMENT, &C. OF THE ILEUM. 375 
teen hours after the first attack, death ensued, preceded by the 
greatest agony. 
Post-mortem Examination .—On opening the cavity of the 
abdomen, by making an incision from the ensiform cartilage of 
the sternum, through the linea alba to the pubis, and then to the 
transverse processes of the lumbar vertebrae (the subject being 
placed on her back), I discovered the ileum yi a state oi mortifica¬ 
tion, and distended with a dark bloody fluid, to the extent of 
nearly four feet. On cautiously removing the contents of the 
abdomen, and carefully separating the intestines, it appeared that 
the ileum had become entangled and strangulated, and with it 
was a tumour or diseased pendulous mesenteric gland twisted 
around the intestine, preventing the possibility of getting rid of 
the strangulation, and occasioning the mare’s death. 
The stomach contained a considerable quantity of soft food, 
with a slight appearance of inflammation ; the large intestines 
were distended with hard faeces, and spots of inflammation on 
the villous coat: the other viscera were healthy. 
On tracing the cause of this animal’s death, I am of opinion 
that the primary symptoms arose from a distention of the in¬ 
testines with flatulency or gripes, which was soon succeeded by 
the entanglement of the ileum by means of the gland above-men¬ 
tioned, which was pendulous. 
On the day following this mare’s death, another valuable mare 
was similarly taken, but with less violence: by administering the 
laxative draught, and copious bleeding, in a few hours she was 
relieved. Another young mare had an attack; was treated as the 
former, and soon restored. Suspecting' these symptoms to arise 
from the food, I inspected it, and found the hay very indifferent, 
and of a dark colour; the corn had been heated in the mow, was 
musty, and quite unfit for the provender of horses, and likely to 
produce these complaints. On my representing this circumstance 
to the gentleman, the hay and corn have been replaced by good, 
and the horses are well and free from disease. 
Although, as Mr. Leigh states, in a private letter to us, that 
this case “ corresponds with great exactness to one given in Oc¬ 
tober 1829, by Mr. Goodwin,*' we value it the more on that ac¬ 
count, as mutually corroborative of the accurate observation of 
- these gentlemen, and forcing on the attention of veterinary prac¬ 
titioners a state of disease but a little while ago not suspected, 
and now scarcely recognised in our most imperfect and strangely 
limited and abbreviated nosology.— Edit. 
