494 EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF GASTRO-CALCULUS. 
every thing was going on well. My employer being present, I 
told him the mare seemed now quite well, and I did not think my 
services were any more required for the present; leaving due 
caution with the groom to give her soft mashes with a little boiled 
linseed, moderate exercise, &c. 
May 14 th. —Received a note from the owner of the mare inform¬ 
ing me she was doing well, and was now working a little. 
May 18/A.—Was this morning summoned to attend the mare 
again. The messenger informed me she was taken ill in the same 
way, but thought her much worse this time than before, and that 
they had given her an antispasmodic drench. On my arrival 1 
found her lying in a natural position; pulse a little subdued; legs 
and ears moderately warm; dung pultaceous; urinary passages 
free. On learning from the man that the night previous the mare 
had a small portion of grass given her, and that morning the same, 
I repeated the opening medicine as before, and gave more injec¬ 
tions, and remained with her six or seven hours, when she seemed 
greatly relieved, and I left her for the night, with orders for total 
abstinence from every thing except a little oatmeal gruel to drink. 
May 19 th. —Found my patient standing, and for the first time 
exhibiting slight symptoms of inflammation. I abstracted four 
quarts of blood, and gave her sedative medicine. 
May 20/A.—On visiting her this morning I found her again ap¬ 
parently well, and left her to the care of the groom, with directions 
as to diet, &c. 
May 27/A.—Received a note from the owner of the mare, stating 
she was “as well as ever she was in her lifeyet he wished me 
to see her^before she was put to work, to know my opinion about 
putting her to the horse. 
May 28/A.—On visiting my patient this morning I found her to 
all appearance as well as any animal living; and, as the season 
was advancing, I at once consented for her to be put to the horse, 
and so left her to the care of those in charge of affairs. 
June 1st. —She was served by a strong cart horse, and re¬ 
ceived him cheerfully. 
3c?.—I was this morning summoned again to my patient, the 
man informing me that she was “ ten times worse than ever,” and 
that he had taken three quarts of blood, and given an antispasmodic 
drench, &c.; also that she had eaten some small portions of grass, 
which seemed to make her ill shortly after taking it. I at once 
told the man that there must be something seriously obstructing 
the passage of the food from the stomach to the intestines, and that 
if flatus was commenced she would be dead before we could arrive: 
which prediction proved unhappily too true. 
On my arrival, two hours after death, I had her removed to a 
