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its fluidity, and restoring the impaired muscular action of 
the stomach. For this purpose doses of purgative agents in 
solution are exhibited. 
Cattle and sheep are relieved from immediate distress by 
the use of the probang, or by a puncture of the rumen. The 
hyposulphite of soda has been employed also with benefit. 
An entire abstinence from solid food will, of course, be in¬ 
sisted on during the treatment. The operation of opening 
the rumen and removing the accumulated mass we cannot 
speak of from experience. That it may be successful in some 
instances is quite probable ; but under ordinary circum¬ 
stances it can scarcely be considered a justifiable proceeding. 
(To he continued .) 
ACTION OF INDIAN HEMP IN PARALYSIS.— 
CASE OF RUPTURED STOMACH —PARACEN¬ 
TESIS ABDOMINIS. 
By J. R. Hoey, M.R.C.Y.S., 
Y.S. Her Alaiestv’s 3rd Brigade Horse Artillery, India. 
Landour, N. W. Provinces, India. 
Gentlemen, —In continuation of my remarks in a letter 
to your address, dated 1st July last, and in compliance with 
my promise contained therein, I am induced to offer a few 
more observations for publication, if you consider them worth 
a place in your journal. 
I may be permitted to remark here, with reference to one 
or two cases narrated in my last, in which Indian Hemp 
( <f bhmig ”) was used, that I am fully prepared to be told, es¬ 
pecially in the case of ringbone, where paralysis supervened, 
that the extensive tumefaction among the psoas muscles, pos¬ 
terior to the right kidney, was the cause of the paralysis. 
Further, that this enlargement, by compressing the sciatic 
and sacral nerves, cut off the nervous force, and that para¬ 
plegia was the result. This would account also for the 
urine dribbling away involuntarily, seeing that the bladder 
under such circumstances would be almost necessarily im¬ 
plicated. Of course it will be said that when resolution took 
place, and the tumefaction was dispersed, the cause of para¬ 
lysis being removed, then sensation and motor power returned, 
and the animal recovered. Further, that the (C bluing ” in this 
case simply acted as any other narcotic would have done, and 
that we are not to look to narcotics but to stimulants to bring 
