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REMARKS ON A CASE OF C4LCULI IN THE 
INTESTINES OF A HORSE, FOLLOWED BY 
RUPTURE. 
By J. C. Broad, M.R.C.V.S., Market Street, Paddington. 
Cases of abdominal disturbance in tbe horse, arising from 
the presence of calculi, occasionally come under the notice of 
most veterinary practitioners. In some instances the case is 
remarkable for its acuteness of attack, and speedy termination 
in rupture and death ; in others it assumes a subacute form, 
and the case may be a very protracted one, as the following 
will show. 
January 9th my attention was called by Mr. Bos worth, 
omnibus proprietor, St. John’s Wood, to an aged gray 
gelding, reported to be suffering from cold and loss of appe¬ 
tite. I noticed no marked symptom of illness beyond a 
general dulness, and the horsekeeper informed me that the 
animal had shown no indication of pain previous to my 
visiting him, but he had refused both food and water since 
the previous evening. I prescribed a draught to be given 
him, and left another to be administered in the evening. 
10th.—Upon making an early call, I observed that the 
horse was spontaneously purging, and he seemed very uneasy; 
he had also continued to refuse his food, and drank but very 
little. I at once ordered his removal to the infirmary. 
On the 11th, 12th, and i3th, the purging to a small extent 
continued, but was accompanied with only slight pain; he 
was mostly lying down, and when in that position generally 
very quiet; when up, he was constantly walking round his 
box; he had taken a little gruel only since his admission. 
14ih.—No improvement. 
1.5th and iGth.—The pain has evidently increased, and no 
dung has been passed since the 14th; his urine is voided in 
small quantities, frequently, and of a very dark colour; no 
marked distension of bowels exists. 
Applied mustard freely to the surface of the abdomen, and 
gave some laxative medicine, with frequent injections of 
warm water. 
17th.—The symptoms continue nearly the same, except 
that the animal is not in quite so much pain. 
18th.—Purging recommenced ; faeces passed in small quan¬ 
tities, and exceedingly offensive. This continued till the 24th, 
