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A CASE OF STRANGULATION OF THE ILIUM 
IN A HORSE. 
By John Anderson, V.S., Glasgow. 
On the 3d of February, 1839, an aged brown Clydesdale 
gelding, the property of Mr. Finlay McFadyen, contractor, 
was seized with an attack of colic. The stable-keeper back- 
raked him, and gave the abdomen a good rubbing, after which 
the animal appeared quite well up to about two o’clock on 
Friday morning, when he became again pained, and continued 
so, despite all the stable-keeper’s exertions. At five o’clock 
he sent for Mr. Charles Moir, V.S., who administered every¬ 
thing calculated to alleviate the poor animal’s sufferings, but 
all was of no avail. The animal gradually got worse, and 
when I was called in about nine o’clock a.m. I found him 
groaning and apparently in great agony; pulse imperceptible, 
visible mucous membranes of a yellowish appearance, perspi¬ 
ration profuse, respiration laboured, the nostrils very much 
dilated. He had a great desire for w 7 ater, and whenever he 
heard it running from the pipe or splashing in the buckets 
he neighed. He would draw all four feet together and turn 
round and round, then lay down cautiously, generally on the 
off side. Soon he got up again, and every now and then gave 
a determined vicious kick with his near hind leg. This latter 
symptom I wish your readers particularly to take notice of, 
I having been frequently told by my father that whenever I 
saw a horse in great agony, and giving such peculiar kicks 
with the near hind leg, i should invariably find a twist of the 
ilium to exist. From the above fact I ventured to assert 
the horse in question to have strangulation of the ilium, and 
from the appearances presented after death you will perceive 
that my diagnosis was correct. The horse died about T30 
p.m. 
Post-mortem appearances .—On opening the abdominal 
cavity, I found a portion of the mesentery lacerated, and just 
at that point where the ilium enters the caecum it was 
twice twisted round on itself like a rope, and the intestine, 
for about three feet anterior to the twist, was firmly impacted 
with ingesta. On opening the stomach, I found a consider¬ 
able number of the lurnbrici in it. I may here mention that 
this is the fourth or fifth case I have had since last April w 7 here 
I have found those w 7 orms in large number in the stomach. 
In one case, belonging to Messrs. Wilson and Co., of 
