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use of expensive medicines, &c. lie will not be near so great a 
gainer as if he had advocated the use of drugs of a cheap de¬ 
scription : he is consequently forced into the very unpleasant 
predicament of either acting against his conscience or his pecu¬ 
niary interest; a situation in which no man ought ever to be 
placed. And there is no member of the profession entertaining 
any regard for Mr. Coleman, who does not regret that he ever 
suffered himself to become an agent in such a capacity. 
An Army Veterinarian. 
A CASE OF STRANGULATION OF THE ILEUM, AND 
ANOTHER OF RUPTURE OF THE VENA PORTA. 
By Mr. W. Chadwick, V.S., Hot-wells , near Bristol. 
A black draught horse at the Hot-wells exhibited, about two 
o’clock on Sunday merning, the 15th of May, strong symp¬ 
toms of colic. The groom of the yard was called, who bled him 
immediately to the amount of seven quarts, and gave him a pint 
of castor oil and an enema of water gruel. The horse graduall y 
got w orse until seven o’clock, when the owner sent for my uncle 
(who is retired from practice) and myself. We found him ap¬ 
parently labouring under Enteritis. I immediately proceeded to 
back-rake him ; and, as soon as possible, threw 7 up a purging 
enema. The balls of dung I brought away were covered with 
mucus. The enema produced no effect, and in two hours after¬ 
wards I administered a drink composed of a strong decoction of 
senna with Glauber salts, and on which I always place reliance, 
and the good effect of which 1 have repeatedly seen. At four 
o'clock p.m. this had produced no evacuation, and the horse was 
sweating profusely from his body, while his ears and legs re¬ 
mained cold, and he w as continually lying down and getting up 
again, without rolling. I again raked him without effect, and 
administered a second enema, which remained in him for twenty 
minutes; I then left him until seven o'clock,when the symptoms 
were rather easier, but there was no evacuation. I now gave 
him thirty grains of pulv. croton in a ball, and requested the 
groom to horn down a little thin gruel; the symptoms then some¬ 
what remitted until one o'clock on Monday morning, when the 
horse stood up quietly until a quarter before two, when he 
dropped down suddenly, and died in a minute. 
On dissection, we found a quantity of undigested hay, &c. in 
the stomach, w ith the oil and other medicines, a part of which 
passed on to the ileum, which w as discoloured , and at the junction 
of this intestine w ith the coccum it rtas convoluted into a Jinn 
