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INTESTINAL CALCULUS. 
those noticed in the several animals that died on this parti¬ 
cular farm. For instance, when the rumen has been inor¬ 
dinately distended with gas, the animal has evinced consider¬ 
able pain ; he frequently grunts, is restless, and the breathing 
is perceptibly quickened. In these cases, I consider the disen¬ 
gagement of the gas or gases—for I believe they are carbonic 
acid and carburetted hydrogen, principally—is the effect of 
indigestion. But in this case I imagined the indigestion—or 
at least the disturbed function of digestion—to be the effect 
of the particular state of the mucous coat, and not the cause . 
The rumen was not nearly so much distended as were the 
rumens of many animals that I have known recover. The 
occupier of the estate has promised me that I shall have an 
early intimation of the next case that occurs, from which it 
may be hoped we shall derive more definite information. 
CASE OF INTESTINAL CALCULUS. 
By T. Cotton, 
Student of Veterinary Medicine, Stourbridge. 
January 8th, 1861.— I was requested early this morning 
to see a black cart gelding, aged, belonging to W. Watkins, 
Esq., of Stourbridge. At 7 a.m., I found him labouring 
under an attack of spasm of the bowels, although not very 
severe. He was lying down, pulse 40, and not much excited ; 
pain was occasionally evinced, but not very acute. No 
faeces having been voided for some time previously, I gave— 
% 
Aloes B. Bd., 5 v j; 
Tinct. Opii, i n haustus. 
Threw up a glyster, and, as at midday, nothing had been 
voided with the enemas, and the animal appeared much in 
the same state as before, I gave— 
Aloes B. Bd., 5ij- 
in solution, and repeated the glysters. Towards evening he 
got worse; the pulse had risen to 60 in the minute, and was 
hard and wiry in tone ; the breathing was much accele¬ 
rated; the countenance had become anxious, and there were 
indications of great pain, by frequently looking at the flanks, 
&c. No faeces had been passed. Venesection ten pounds, 
and gave in bolus— 
Aloes B. Bd., 5iij; 
Pulv. Opii Turc., 5j- 
