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REPORTS OF CASES. 
hastened death, without having the desired effect, as the doses 
were enormous for a 16 mo. colt. 
Case 10, grm.—Had azutoria, a relapsed case, having been 
turned loose to play next day after a light attack. Gave one oz. of 
aloes with gentian; it failed to act in due time and I gave 1J- gr. 
eserine; the rectum was emptied in thirty minutes and one small 
passage a few minutes later was all. She died the following night. 
Cases 11 and 12.—Two .colts, one a yearling, the other a 3 yr. 
old, had been turned from alfalfa into dry corn stalks and wads. 
When I saw them the youngest had been showing pain three 
days, the other two, the owner said “ go for them, I think they 
will die anyway.” I administered 1J grains eserine and 1J grains 
pilocarpine to the youngest and he died in just thirty-two minutes 
with tetanic convulsions; he stood up and tried to walk until the 
last, although he had lost all power of co-ordination in fifteen 
minutes, and reeled, crossed his legs and staggered like a drunken 
man. I made an autopsy immediately and found an impaction 
in the small intestine about nine inches long. It slipped along the 
intestine very easily, which I think a result of the action of pilo¬ 
carpine. There was no evacuation before or at death. 
I gave the other colt the same dose. It caused a great deal of 
uneasiness and straining, but no fseces made an appearance in one 
and a half hours, although pain was less at the end of that time. 
I gave an aloes ball and left 1 grain eserine to be given in 
the morning and went home; it died the next afternoon without 
having had any movement of the bowels at all. 
Case 13, g. g.—Had colic all day; pain not very great, but 
constant. Morphia did not have much effect; gave 1 grain eser¬ 
ine with no results except that the pain seemed to cease. He 
was all right next day. I have used eserine in a number of other 
instances but with results similar to those described. 
In one instance I gave what was supposed to be 3 grains dis¬ 
solved in a few ounces of water, as a drench, with no visible 
effect. While it cannot be relied upon to always have the de¬ 
sired effect, I consider it a wonderful remedy and worthy of trial 
in any case of obstinate constipation. My experience has been, 
however, that as a remedy in the first stages of the attack it is 
