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E. C. THUKSTON. 
written, and the discussion which I hope will follow, have the 
effect of producing a deeper feeling of sympathy for our 
patients, so that the different operations to be performed will 
as often as possible be done under anaesthesia, then I shall 
feel amply paid for my trouble. 
In conclusion, if any of you desire one of these inhalers I 
will have it made and sent to you at cost. 
PECULIAR FATAL RESULT OF AN (ESOPHAGEAL OBSTRUCTION. 
By E. C. Thurston. 
A Paper read before the Montreal Veterinary Medical Association. 
The subject was an Irish terrier pup, about eight months 
old, brought to the hospital on the 31st of October last, at 9 
A.M., suffering intense pain ; the history of the case was brief, 
the animal being first noticed to be ill shortly after dinner the 
day previous. 
The symptoms pointed to some gastric or intestinal trouble, 
the patient looking repeatedly around to one side, and tuck¬ 
ing his nose close up against the abdomen, this would be fol¬ 
lowed by occasional efforts to vomit, a complete stretching 
out of the body, all four limbs being extended and the animal 
lying with the abdomen to the floor; pulse very rapid, tem¬ 
perature 104° F. 
After a hot bath, a dose of castor oil was administered; 
and an enema of hot water and soap given, a large linseed 
poultice was then applied to the abdomen, this being renewed 
every hour; shortly after the first poulice was applied, there 
being no abatement in the suffering, an anodyne was admin¬ 
istered, being repeated at intervals. 
At three o’clock in the afternoon he passed both urine and 
faeces, the latter thin, of a yellowish color, containing traces 
of mucous; the last opiate was given at eight o’clock in the 
evening, the poultice was changed several times up to mid¬ 
night, when the patient was given three ounces of beef tea 
and left for the night, being perfectly conscious and appar¬ 
ently free from pain; both food and water were offered him, 
but he showed no inclination toward either. When seen at 
