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52 REPORTS OF CASES. 
FLATULENT COLIC, ENTEROTOMY (REPEATED SEVEN TIMES), 
ACUTE MECHANICAL BRONCHITIS—RECOVERY UNDER 
INTRA-TRACHEAL INJECTIONS OF ESSENCE 
OF TURPENTINE (TEREBINE.) 
By M. J. Treacy, Vet., 8th Cavalry, Fort Meade, S. D. 
At 4 o’clock P.M., July 24th, last, there was presented for 
treatment, a magnificent army mule, weighing about fourteen 
hundred pounds, six years old, suffering from flatulent colic. 
There was no history to be had (there never is, in the army.) 
He seemed in extreme pain, manifested by continued restless¬ 
ness, kicking, laying down for an instant and jumping up 
again almost immediately, with eructation of gases. 
He received an extravenous inject on of— 
No. 1. Eserine, - - .065 
Pilocarpine, - .130 
Water, - - 4. 
This was followed by intense pain, and great struggles, 
during which he broke his halter strap and escaped, trotting 
away with that peculiar rigidity of his spine and abdomen 
always seen in animals suffering from acute tympany. 
At 5 o’clock he was captured, and was now very much 
swollen, the injection not having any results, so far as could 
be ascertained, excepting one slight explosive discharge. 
Having no antiseptics within easy access, 1 performed para¬ 
centesis abdominalis simply by first incising the skin, and in¬ 
troducing a “ bulb-trocar ” of about three-eighths of an inch in 
diameter and about seven inches in length (this being the 
sample trocar and canula issued by the War Department) 
into the intestines, by a blow of the hand, through the right 
flank. I11 response, there issued an immense amount of gas ; 
as the pain continued, I injected into the trachea— 
No. 2. Morphia Sulph., - .324 
Water, - 16. 
which gave almost immediate relief. I am a believer in large 
doses of morphia, notwithstanding the strictures ol a recent 
writer on this subject. This was followed by a draught con¬ 
sisting of— 
No. 3. Calx chlor., - 8. 
Water, - 128. 
which resulted in apparent ease, and convalescence. At 6 
o’clock, however, I found my patient again swollen, again 
punctured—relief. At 7.30 and at 9 o’clock again punctured. 
No. 3 prescription being administered every 3 hours (there is 
no choice of medicine for absorbing gases issued by the War 
Department.) At 4 o’clock, 25th, again called, again punc¬ 
tured. 7 o’clock again punctured left side—relief. 9 o’clock 
