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was no impaction, no intestinal calculi, but a marked constric¬ 
tion posterior to the rupture; neither was there any thicken¬ 
ing or inflammation, but marked congestion at the constriction; 
anterior to the constriction the colon was totally deprived of 
its bosselated condition to the extent of two feet, being smooth 
like the stomach and much larger than the remaining por¬ 
tion—evidently due to drawing up at constriction. The case 
had been interesting to me on account of its recurrent nature, 
which, however, might have been due to an allowance of corn 
fodder, which, I have since been informed, he received the 
evening before his death, and also the nature of the rupture, 
which must have been simply due to spasmodic contraction 
of the colon, with subsequent distention and finally rupture 
on account of the total absence of any organic lesion at the 
constriction. 
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ARSENIC OUTWARDLY APPLIED. 
By J. R. Cox, F.R.C.Y.S. 
A valuable cart horse, which had a warty growth on the 
side of the face, while journeying one day through the city, 
chanced to be espied by a certain “ wise man of the east,” who, 
boasting of the advantage of being a self-taught veterinarian, 
untrammelled by the incumbrance of a diploma, presented 
himself to the proprietor of the animal and offered his services, 
undertaking to make a perfect cure for a sovereign, and to re¬ 
move the wart so that it should never come back again. The 
bargain was struck, and the savant commenced operations, 
visiting his patient regularly on three consecutive days to 
apply, on a stick, a “ secret remedy ” containing a little arsenic 
and some other things. At the end of three days, the wart 
was gone and a hole appeared in the cheek of the horse large 
enough to permit the passage of a man’s fist, through which 
the wart had perhaps fallen, and the self-taught practitioner 
had gone to look for the wart. 
The author was then called in, and, though unable to fill 
up the hole, succeeded in reducing it to a size sufficient to 
