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RUPTURED STOMACH OP A HORSE. 
Post-mortem examination . — All the viscera were healthy, 
except the intestines, which were slightly inflamed, and in a 
pouch of the colon a large quantity of sand existed. The 
bowels contained much fluid ingesta. 
CASE OF RUPTURED STOMACH OF A HORSE. 
By M. Hack, M.R.C.Y.S., Leicester. 
The subject of this communication was an active bay 
cart-horse, seven years old, belonging to a farmer of this 
town. He had been in regular work, without showing any 
symptom of disease, until Wednesday, May the 3d, between 
eleven and twelve o'clock a.m., when a messenger was sent 
to me, requesting my immediate attendance on a horse having 
colic, accompanied with violent pain. The animal had been 
at work since seven o’clock in the morning, drawing a cart. 
On my first seeing him, which was about one p.m., not 
being at home when the messenger arrived, 1 found my 
patient lying down and rolling over, having an anxious coun¬ 
tenance, the perspiration rolling off in drops, the mouth hot 
and dry, the Schneiderian membrane also dry, but not changed 
in colour, and the pulse 46 in the minute. I immediately 
administered an antispasmodic draught, having taken one 
with me, and then proceeded to put a few questions to the 
waggoner as to how he had been feeding his horses, &c. 
He informed me that the horse in question had eaten that 
morning the same quantity as usual, and of the same kind of 
food as given him for the last two or three weeks, which 
consisted of cut oat-straw, three quarterns of split beans, 
and one pound of linseed cake per day for each horse, 
the cake being mixed with water, and the cut meat also made 
moist when given to the horses. 
I may here add, that at six o’clock, the same morning, I 
was called in to attend a cart-mare in the same stable, 
labouring under an attack of spasm, which quickly recovered 
after giving her a draught, and she went to a little light 
work the same day. 
3 p.m.—My patient is still in pain, the pulse has risen to 
52 beats in the minute, easily compressible, the breathing is 
accelerated, and he has not passed any faeces. I was, how- 
