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Translations and Reviews of Continental 
Veterinary Journals. 
By W. Ernes, M.R.C.V.S., London. 
Journal des Veterinaires du Midi, July, 1862. 
CASE OE RUPTURE OE THE RECTUM—CURED. 
By M. Vialas, Veterinaire, Haute-Garonne. 
An ox, the subject of this case, received a butt in the rectum 
from another ox while in the act of drinking at the river. On 
returning to the stable he was very uneasy, lay down and 
rolled himself on the litter, and as he got worse, M. Vialas 
was sent for. On his arrival he found the animal, a fine four- 
year-old ox of the Gascon breed, on his belly, with his head 
under the manger, as if suffering from violent colic. Having 
been informed of what had occurred, he examined the patient 
carefully. The pulse was small, frequent, and irregular; the 
muzzle dry, the respiration irregular, the rumen distended and 
full of food, the animal not having ruminated since the 
evening on which the accident occurred. He was further in¬ 
formed that the ox had neither voided any dung nor staled 
since the accident. On exploring the rectum, which was very 
hot, the bladder was found to be moderately distended, and in 
that part of the rectum which corresponds to the centre of 
the bladder a tumour was found, which was hot and very 
painful; anterior to it there was an accumulation of faeces, 
which the author removed, wondering why they should not 
have come away naturally. Returning to the tumour, which 
he had felt on the inferior surface of the intestine, he found 
in its centre a rent, into which he could introduce three 
fingers, after which some blood flowed. The edges of the 
wound were not thickened, and were about a centimetre and 
a half in length. The cowherd now confessed that he had 
explored the rectum after the introduction of the horn of the 
other ox at the watering-place, and that he also had found the 
rent. 
Treatment .—Blood was abstracted to the amount of four 
litres, and injections of cold water every ten minutes, with a thin 
diet, were ordered. On the next day the colic had greatly de¬ 
creased, the patient had ruminated at different intervals for 
about half an hour at a time, the pulse was not so quick as on 
the evening before, the muzzle was moist, the edges of the 
