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CALCULUS IN THE INTESTINE. 
By John Brown, V.S. London. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian 
Dear Sir,— Reading in your Journal of this present month a 
case of calculus in the intestines of a horse, as recorded by you, 
I have sent you the following similar case, which I have lately 
attended. 
In addition to the symptoms you have related, such as 
pawing and sitting upon his haunches like a dog, with his fore 
legs stretched out before him, as in the attitude of rising, I 
noticed in my case, that while in this position he would stretch 
his neck and head as high as he could, and curl up his upper lip. 
The horse was first taken ill on Thursday, 1st January of the 
present year; but not in the manner you have described your 
horse to have been “ by scouring,” for his dung was hard at first; 
indeed, he was generally costive. No dung passed from him 
from the Thursday morning I first saw him until Sunday evening, 
although the most active purgatives and enemas had been 
given. The horse went on free froin pain, and fed tolerably 
well on bruised oats, chaff, &c. until Sunday, 18th January, 
when he was again seized with all the former symptoms. 
Purgatives and enemas were again had recourse to, and they 
purged him freely for four or five days. Whilst he was 
purging he seemed quite easy, and at times fed well; but as 
soon as his dung became hard he was again attacked with all 
the former symptoms. He continued alternately changing in 
this way until Saturday 7th of February, when he was shot. 
Remarks. —Throughout the whole of this horse’s illness he 
had a constant cough, and a discharge of thick white matter 
from his nostrils, more particularly from the right, but without 
any offensive smell; though there was an offensive smell 
from his mouth, which continued throughout the whole of his 
illness. 
Post-mortem examination. —A large stone, weighing five 
pounds, was taken out of the colon at the part just before it 
terminates in the rectum. It was of a pyramidal shape, and 
possessed a rough mulberry exterior. It was of a dung-colour, 
and its interior appeared to be composed of particles of oat- 
husks and fragments of earth and stone. I cut it in two, and 
found two or three small stones, one larger than the rest, in 
nearly the centre of which seemed to have been the nucleus to 
the mass. The rest of the viscera all looked healthy. 
I remain, dear Sir, your’s truly. 
23, Whitefriar’s-street, April 5, 1852. 
