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eserine, repeating the eserine in about forty minutes. There 
was no evacuation of the bowels, nor did I much expect 
one; but I did expect that as the influence of the drug wore 
off, the horse would quiet down and be out of pain for the 
night. In this I was disappointed ; although the pain lessened 
it never left him. An examination per rectum revealed noth¬ 
ing but a most violent contraction of that organ upon my 
hand. 
About iop.M. I gave a hypodermic of five grains of mor¬ 
phine ; it seemed to stupify him; he lay on his sternum, 
eyes partially closed, head waving slowly from side to side, 
and every little while looking at his flank. 
I was uneasy about him and would have stayed through 
the night, but the owner said there was no use sitting there 
watching a horse sleep, that he would keep until morning; 
and took the lantern and started. 
About 5.30 a.m. I received a telephone from the owner 
that the horse had pawed and rolled all night but was now 
standing up : had offered him water, which he refused. 
I made up my mind then that there was an intestinal 
calculus, intussusception, gut-tie, or something of like nature, 
and I decided to make an examination per rectum, and if 
I could discover anything definite enough to warrant it, 
to attempt a surgical operation, by way of the inguinal canal, 
as I do for a ridgling, only making a much larger opening. 
But when 1 came to make an examination, although I though 
I could feel what seemed a knot of the small intestines well 
to the right flank, it was too indefinite to warrant an operation. 
However, I administered two grains of eserine, thinking 
that by the violent perastaltic effort it might be moved: 
but it not only failed in this but did not seem to distress the 
horse nearly as much as I have seen half the quantity do be¬ 
fore, which I think due to the inflamed condition of intes¬ 
tines and lack of nervous sensibility. 
I found his temperature to be 104° when I came in the 
morning, pulse almost imperceptible, membranes congested, 
but not a great deal of ecchymosis, and quivering of the mus¬ 
cles all over the body. 
