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trial of any agent ought to strengthen our attachment to, or 
warn us against its use (more correctly, abuse); and, as these 
cases are gleanings from the practice book of a very young 
practitioner, they may possibly be, to a portion of your 
readers, welcome. 
Case I. — Enteritis . 
About twelve months since I was requested, at 10 o’clock, 
p.m., by Dr. Barlow, Eccles Street, of this city, to attend a 
bay carriage horse (purchased a few days before for sixty 
guineas), stated to be “dying.” On my arrival, I found the 
animal being led about by the groom, surrounded by from 
fifteen to twenty persons, comprising grooms, farriers, black¬ 
smiths, et hoc omne genus , giving as many opinions as there 
were persons (no unfrequent annoyance in the practice of our 
profession). Proceeding to examine the horse, I experienced 
some difficulty in having received no clue whatsoever as to 
the history of the cause, it being merely stated that, three 
hours previously, he was perfectly well. The only symptom 
I could immediately seize upon, was a continual tottering 
and disinclination to be stopped, particularly noticeable at 
the time we were endeavouring to keep him still in order to 
bleed him, the pulse being 60, and full. Notwithstanding.our 
numbers, I at first failed to effect this; however, having had 
the place well covered with straw, according to my antici¬ 
pations, he fell, when I bled him largely; and not until then 
was I given to understand by the groom, that the animal was 
slightly purged a few hours before, (notifications of a class, 
when to their advantage, which it behoves us to receive with 
caution.) I gave Pulv. Opii in a drench, threw up an 
enema; and, with a good deal of difficulty, I had him brought 
down to my own stables, the Doctor giving up all hopes of 
his recovery. The truth at length began to ooze out: the 
groom, in his wisdom, a few days previously, had admi¬ 
nistered a purgative ball; and it failing to act, even before 
action was due, a second was given. This was sufficient. 
The cause was evident—but not more palpable than was the 
result, for a more violent case of Enteritis I, in my brief 
experience, never witnessed. For several hours I repeated 
the Opium drenches and enemata, but with no apparent 
benefit. About 3 o’clock, a.m., on the following day, I 
applied a strong mustard blister over the abdomen, and in 
less than half an hour the marked benefit exceeded my 
warmest anticipations. By 8 o'clock, my patient was feed¬ 
ing; so that in a few days I was able to discharge him, having 
adopted the usual restorative means. .Is the recovery of this 
