REPORTS OF CASES. 
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Gave 5 gr. morphia but had no aloes ball at hand. He stopped 
rolling but kept pawing and walking in a circle. At the end of 
an hour I gave 1£ gr. eserine; in about fifty minutes he passed a 
quantity of dry, powdery faeces, at the end of two and one half hours 
he had passed nothing more and was still in pain; gave f gr. 
eserine and 1J gr. pilocarpine ; in thirty minutes he had a passage 
of faeces and seemed much easier; so I left him for the balance of 
the night. Next morning he was having slight but constant pain; 
gave a large aloes ball, and about middle of the forenoon I gave 
1 gr. eserine and 2J gr. pilocarpine, which caused quite a large 
passage in forty minutes and another in about sixty minutes; an 
hour after I gave a warm water enema, which brought awciy a 
large amount of faeces. The horse eased down after this and I 
waited for the aloes to act but he died thirty-six hours after 
without any action, although he was in no apparent pain and the 
pulse was reasonably strong and soft up to the second night after, 
when we left him, to find him dead in the morning. Had no 
opportunity for a post-mortem. 
Case 9, g. colt 16 mo.—Impaction from alfalfa. For the 
benefit of vets, who are not used to alfalfa I will explain that it 
somewhat resembles clover as a feed, and animals eating it are 
generally very loose, but if they do get impacted it is almost 
always fatal, as the fibers form a mass of about the consistency 
and digestability of a hard pressed ball of wet oakum. The colt 
had had one pint of linseed oil the night before I saw it; gave f 
gr. eserine; no evacuation, some pain; lay down and could not get 
up. This was in the forenoon. Saw it again at 1.30 p.m., gave 1 
eserine and 1J grs. pilocarpine; caused profuse salivation and 
muscular twichings; two or three hard pellets came away. In one 
and one-half hours gave gr. eserine; no evacuations; a little 
flatus was passed; paristaltic murmur very loud at times. 7 p.m. 
was down and unable to rise; gave 1J- gr. eserine, made an ex¬ 
amination per rectum; found it empty but could feel the im¬ 
paction in the colon ; it was very large and would dent with 
pressure. The eserine caused great pain for an hour, then lie lay 
very quiet; we dragged him into a box stall as he was unable to 
rise, and he died about 10 p.m. I have no doubt that the eserine 
