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first called to visit her. She had symptoms of spasmodic 
colic, and he treated her for it with good results, as the spasms 
were very severe and lasted for only one hour. During the 
balance of the year she had five such attacks, but always 
made a quick recovery. The next year she had these more 
frequent. The mare was in good flesh and looked healthy until 
the past spring, when she commenced to lose flesh and grow 
weak. 
My father died in June, and as there was not another vet¬ 
erinary surgeon in this section, I was called to see her. At 
the time I thought it a case of indigestion and treated her for 
it, and, for a time, it seemed with good results; but about 
three weeks later she commenced to refuse her food but 
would feed well on grass, and continued to grow worse in 
appearance but had the colicky spells less often. 
The owner called in a veterinary surgeon from Boston, 
Mass., who happened to be in this section, and he prescribed 
gentian and iron tonic. She continued to go wrong, I was 
called in the second time two weeks ago. I told the owner 
that the symptoms were those of an intestinal calculi, that I 
thought nothing could be done to give permanent relief, and 
that if she should die during the winter would like him to 
make an examination and report to me at the college. Yes¬ 
terday I received a message from him saying that the mare 
had died that morning, and wished me to come and make the 
examination. I did so, and found the abdominal cavity filled 
with a fluid of light red color; the small intestines perforated 
in two places, and near the colon I found this section which I 
enclosed in the jar, with three others, one large and the other 
two somewhat smaller, located about two feet apart. There 
was an ulcer about four inches wide on the liver, and the 
liver had a very unhealthy appearance. The other organs 
seemed to have a healthy appearaace. 
1 thought it an interesting case although a hard one for a 
junior. As I expect to return to college this week, I thought 
I would enclose this to you hoping when I see you that you 
will enlighten me in regard to the case. 
