684 ABDOMINAL TUMOUR AND RUPTURE OP THE COLON. 
three days of being thus attacked, when dry food was substi¬ 
tuted. Considering the case to be one of constipation of the 
bowels, caused by the sudden change of food, I administered 
purgatives, followed by sedatives, and applied fomentations to 
the abdomen, threw up enemas, and had him well clothed, and 
the legs bandaged. He was then placed in a loose box, with a 
pail of gruel by him, and quietude enjoined. 
6th.—My patient is much worse. Pulse 90; breathing 
accelerated; membranes injected; no action of the bowels : 
violent abdominal pain. He is frequently pawing, lying 
down, rolling upon his back, and continually turning his 
head to the left side. I repeated the medicine, and ordered 
enemas every three hours. In the evening he was easier, 
but still in pain. Gave instructions for the enemas to be 
continued. 
7th.—A great improvement has taken place. All the 
symptoms are more favorable, and the bowels are acting 
nicely. The horse has drunk a little gruel, and stands in his 
natural position. 
Up to the 11th he continued to improve, when I adminis¬ 
tered tonic agents, and ordered soft diet, such as mashes, &c. 
On the 16‘tli my attention was again called to him, when 
I found a recurrence of the symptoms, which were precisely 
the same as before existed, with the exception of the abdo¬ 
minal pain being more acute and tympanitis being present. He 
still kept his head to the left side, and sometimes he would 
stand for ten or fifteen minutes perfectly quiet, and then sud¬ 
denly throw himself down in violent pain. I adopted the 
same treatment as before. 
On the 17th the patient was much worse, and I then gave it 
as my opinion that some lesion existed, the precise nature of 
which it was difficult to determine, but I thought it might be 
either a tumour or a calculus, and that there was verv little 
hope of recovery. 
18th.—Animal better ; all the symptoms more favorable, 
the bowels responding to the action of the medicine. Gave 
tonic agents up to the 24th, and ordered him to be kept en¬ 
tirely upon soft diet. 
On the 30th my patient had another attack, though not so 
severe as the last. The treatment adopted was the same as 
before, and in the course of two or three days the bowels 
were excited into action, and the animal seemed to be better. 
On August the 4th and 8th he had two more attacks. The 
treatment resorted to again relieved him. 
On the 10th, the owner proposed turning him out, and on 
the morning of the 11th he was found dead in the field. 
