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MESENTERIC HERNIA IN A FILLY. 
largement of the plexus choroides. With reference to these 
structures, it is no uncommon thing to find them tubercu- 
lated from deposition, and their size increased thereby to an 
extent many times larger than those sent to us by Mr. Yick, 
without ever having produced any observable inconvenience 
to the horse they belonged to. 
We do not say that it is not possible for these abnormally 
enlarged bodies to have had something to do in causing 
death in this instance, but we nevertheless think it highly 
improbable. 
The enlargement alluded to in each plexus does not exceed 
that of a common horse-bean, and is perhaps not quite so 
large. 
MESENTERIC HERNIA IN A FILLY. 
By E. J. King, M.R.C.Y.S., Diss. 
(A Communication to Assistant-Professor Yarnell.) 
My dear Sir, —I have sent for your perusal the parti¬ 
culars of a case of mesenteric hernia in a two-year-old filly, 
which I was requested to attend on Friday last, supposed to 
be suffering from colic. 
She had been turned out with some others in a meadow, 
and was first observed to be in pain about 7 p.m. Her illness 
was communicated to her owner, who immediately ordered 
her to be sent home, and I was summoned to her, and arrived 
about 9 p.m. The following symptoms were then present:—- 
Acute abdominal pain, evinced by constantly throwing herself 
down, and making attempts to roll over; looking backwards 
towards her flanks, and when standing up, often placing her 
haunches against the wall or manger, and pushing backwards. 
This was a peculiarity I never before remember to have 
observed in a case of supposed colic. Pulse 70 to 80, and 
oppressed; visible mucous membranes injected ; mouth hot 
and dry, and breath foetid; breathing laboured, and at 
times distressed. The attendant told me she had passed 
faeces on her way home, a distance of about two miles, and 
the bladder was relieved in my presence. 
Diagnosis ,—Spasm of the bowels, in association with stran¬ 
gulation. 
Treatment. —Antispasmodics, with fomentations to the ab¬ 
domen, followed by a blister; enemas were also employed, 
