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little bran mash, about six she had had another verv mild 
attack when they had given her the medicine we had left, and 
wished to know how they had better treat her now. 
We could hardly believe the report, as we had given up 
hopes on receiving no word from her in the morning. We now 
went over to see the case again and found her standing quietly 
in the stable. Her bowels had operated freely during the day 
and she had had no other attacks since morning. Her pulse, 
respiration and temperature were practically normal and with 
the exception of a few external bruises and a rather gaunt ap¬ 
pearance, there was nothing to mark the previous days ex¬ 
perience. 
She was kept in for the next day and fed on grass and a 
few doses of condition powders in bran mashes. The next day 
she was put back in the pasture apparently as well as ever. 
I heard nothing further about her until about the latter part 
of September when I met her owner, and he told me that she 
had been in good health all summer, and had never shown any 
signs of another such attack. 
ENTERECTOMY AND ANASTOMOSIS OF THE IN¬ 
TESTINE OF THE DOG* 
By Stanley T. Martin, V.S., B.V.Sc., Winnipeg, Can. 
This operation while common in the practise of human medi¬ 
cine is not made use of to any extent in canine practise. In 
certain cases, as of foreign bodies or where a bowel has become 
injured and gangrenous, the only chance of saving the animal’s 
life depends upon the excision of the diseased portion and the 
union of the cut ends. Our chief difficulty seems to be the mak¬ 
ing of a correct diagnosis soon enough, that is before the patient 
has become exhausted or septic peritonitis has set in. 
Within the last few months I have had the privilege to assist 
in the performance of this operation on a few dogs simply as a 
clinic with excellent results; of course, it must not be forgotten 
that these animals were comparitively healthy and not suffering 
from any disease of the intestine. 
The first animal operated on was a large fox terrier, the pre¬ 
liminary preparations were the same as any abdominal operation, 
starving for 24 hours, etc., the dog was placed on the operating 
* Presented to the Veterinary Medical Association of Manitoba, Brandon, March, 
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