WOUND IN THE PARIETES OF THE ABDOMEN. 731 
and although Mentor^'’ (who has my thanks for his very 
sensible letter) may attribute the disease to change of food, 
I am decidedly of opinion that it arose from the change hav¬ 
ing been made to the Alsike clover/^ on which my patients 
had been feeding about a week before they were attacked. 
EXTENSIVE WOUND IN THE PAEIETES OF THE 
ABDOMEN OF A HORSE. 
By Mr. James Anderton, M.R.C-V.S., Burnley. 
Dear Sir, —On the 12th of August, 1863,1 was requested 
to see a horse, the property of W. Smith, Esq., which was 
said to have received an injury some time during the previous 
night, by a cow goring its side with her horn. Mr. T. F. 
Foulding, M.R.C.V.S., being with me at the time, accompa¬ 
nied me to see the case, and also kindly offered me his assist¬ 
ance, which I gladly availed myself of. On examining the 
horse, I found that he had a large wound on the left side, 
about eight inches in length; taking an oblique direction 
from below upwards and backwards, laying bare a part of 
the sternum, and three or four of the costal cartilages. It 
extended quite through into the abdomen, thus allowing a 
part of the colon and omentum to protrude. I at once in¬ 
formed the owner that the recovery of the horse was doubtful, 
as peritonitis might supervene. 
The treatment I adopted was simple. I first closed the 
wound by strong sutures, and afterwards applied a compress 
by means of wide surcingle; some laxative medicine was 
given, and such other antiphlogistic treatment resorted to 
as was thought necessary to prevent undue inflammatory 
action taking place. In the usual time the wound suppu¬ 
rated, and granulations rapidly formed, whieh soon closed 
the wound, without an unfavorable circumstance having 
taken place. 
The above case is not remarkable in any particular point 
of view; nor was there any novelty in the treatment adopted 
by me; yet I think it is illustrative of what extensive 
injuries important structures may receive (in this instance 
the peritoneum), and yet ultimately do well. It is on this 
account I have thought it might be worthy of a place in the 
Veterinarian. 
To Professor Yaenell. 
