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anus at intervals, but very little feces. After waiting patient¬ 
ly for forty-eight hours for the response of the aloes, and not 
receiving any, I began to be suspicious of the owner in re¬ 
gard to the administration and kind of aloes. The owner hav¬ 
ing bought two ounces of aloes not long ago, as he said, 
showed the remainder of aloes, which disclosed it to be powd. 
Cape Aloes, after which 1 immediately administered one pint 
of linseed oil, because no more expecting any response from 
the aloes; during the day had received two doses of a mix¬ 
ture of 1-2 ounce of sulphuric ether and i ounce of sweet 
spirits of nitrous ether at long intervals ; left the case in the 
afternoon, at which time he seemed to be quite free from pain, 
drinking, and eating hay ; left orders not to give too much 
hay, but grass instead, and plenty to drink, the horse not 
having physicked up to this time I insisted on the owner 
seeing the horse the next day, which he barely consented to, 
because he thought the horse was all right. Again saw the 
horse for the third time on Octobor 14th, at noon ; at this time 
he seemed lively, eating and drinking well, with the exception 
of the mash, which he refused to eat much of. Examination: 
pulse 50, temperature ioo°, respiration normal; did not make 
a rectal exploration ; had passed some feces, urinated, etc., but 
had no actual physic, neither had I expected any. Gave 
stomach powder, to be given in half ounce doses during the 
day, and advised cautious feeding. Happened to meet the 
owner on the road on the 15th of October; inquired about 
the horse, and being told that he was doing very well with 
the exception that he still refused his mash or short feed more 
or less. On the 16th of October received notice that the 
horse was dead. I immediately proceeded to the place to 
hold a post-mortem examination. On my arrival the owner 
informed me that the horse had been all right on the evening 
of the 15th of October, but on coming to the barn on the 
morning of the 16th of October, found the horse lying dead 
under the fore-bed of the barn, having broken the door of his 
stable. 
Post-mortem revealed a large transverse rupture of the 
large colon ; at half its diameter near the pelvic flexure there 
