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general rule, they can cure roaring by any means. I have a 
horse now on my premises that 1 will give any one fifty 
guineas to cure of this disease. 
I feel that I am trespassing on your time and space. If 
you think any useful purpose will be answered by inserting 
the above, I shall feel obliged; if otherwise, please consign 
it to the flames, though I own I shall be glad to learn some¬ 
thing more about firing as a cure for roaring. At present I 
do not believe in it. 
RUPTURE OF THE STOMACH OF A HORSE, 
ASSOCIATED WITH THE EXISTENCE OF 
CYSTS BETWEEN ITS COATS CONTAINING 
LARGE NUMBERS OF WORMS. 
By “Argus.” 
The following case is, I think, one of rare occurrence in 
veterinary practice; and as I am somewhat puzzled to 
account for the original cause of such a state of things as the 
post-mortem examination revealed, I shall feel much obliged 
if you will kindly express your opinion on the subject. 
A troop-horse of the Australian breed was admitted into 
hospital one morning some months ago with all the symp¬ 
toms of severe gastro-enteritis. At first the treatment 
usually adopted under such circumstances was resorted to, 
and about three hours after admission I gave the patient 
chloroform and opium in some acacia mucilage, and repeated 
it every half hour. Six hours from his first coming into 
hospital it became evident that a rupture of the walls, or 
rather coats of the stomach, had taken place, and that he 
was labouring under peritonitis. The case of course now 
became hopeless, and the animal died in about ten hours 
afterwards, or sixteen hours from first being attacked. 
On examining the body after death I found the following 
lesions:—inflammation of the mucous coat of the stomach 
and intestines; rupture of the stomach, the rent in its coats 
being five inches long. The contents of the stomach were 
floating about in the abdominal cavity, and extensive peri¬ 
tonitis had resulted therefrom. On examining the stomach, 
after detaching it, I found indications of several large ulcers 
having existed along the line of the rupture, and that the 
coats of the organ were unusually thin and weak in this part. 
