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W. L. WEST. 
up as much activity as possible in the skin. Use tartar emetic , 
pilocarpine , strychnine , enemas and ice-water packs. And 
never give up the patient until she is well or dead. 
If this treatment shall prove as highly satisfactory to my 
brother practitioners as it has to me, I shall have accom¬ 
plished the object of this rambling but true statement of facts. 
P.S.—No. 35 just died. Autopsy revealed abscess on the 
brain. 
H/EMORRHAGIC ENTERITIS. 
By W. L. West, V.S., Ellsworth, Me. 
Read before the Maine Veterinary Medical Association. 
I desire to call your attention to the above disease, not 
because I know more about it than anybody else, but because 
I know less about it than I wish to; consequently I hope this 
paper will call forth a spirited and edifying discussion. 
In my estimation, haemorrhagic enteritis is the cause of 
more sudden deaths in horses than all other causes combined, 
and the practitioner has less opportunity to prescribe intelli¬ 
gently from the fact that the owner usually diagnoses the 
case as the proverbial “stoppage of the water,” and proceeds 
to dose the animal with nitre, aconite, saleratus, molasses, 
Johnson’s liniment, Dr. Quack’s fever drops, and any or all 
nostrums suggested by the neighbor who had a horse just like 
this, and cured him with a pint of spirits of turpentine, or 
some other equally absurd and heroic treatment. I have 
always taken a great interest in stomach and bowel diseases, 
and have made post mortems in every instance where such a 
proceeding has been possible, and I have invariably found 
one condition following the train of symptoms which I shall 
narrate. The disease in question is one which gravely con¬ 
cerns us as veterinary surgeons, and one which has received 
far less notice from classical writers than many others of 
infinitely less importance. This lesion has received many 
names, such as enteralgia, cutting colic, enterrhagica, red colic, 
etc. 
History : In 1829 Rigot first noticed this condition; after 
