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CASE OF RUPTURE OF THE STOMACH, ASSO¬ 
CIATED WITH THE EXISTENCE OF A LARGE 
TUMOUR ON THE ILEUM. 
By G. J. Gould, Veterinary Student, Southampton. 
Tiie patient was a bay mare, seven years old, the property 
of Mr. Donkin, shipbuilder, of this town. She was admitted 
into our infirmary on Saturday afternoon, the 27th August, 
suffering from an acute attack of colic and tympanitis. The 
pulse was strong and quick ; the visible mucuos membranes 
much injected ; and the indications of abdominal pain very 
severe. The spasms were most extreme and prolonged; 
indeed it was the worst case I had seen for some time, both 
in the duration and also in the rapidity of the attacks. An 
ordinary colic draught was administered; and as the bowels 
were constipated, I removed the faeces from the rectum and 
threw up a clyster. No relief being obtained, and the 
pulse becoming harder, l elected to bleed her, which I did 
until the heart’s action was diminished. Two hours after¬ 
wards, the mare being no better, I administered another 
draught. By this time her sufferings had so much increased 
that she scarcely kept quiet two minutes together, and I 
began to lose all hopes of saving her. 
In about an hour, however, after the exhibition of the last 
draught she was more composed, and freer from pain; but 
this alleviation of her symptoms did not last long. Very 
shortly a great change for the worse came on, and was 
quickly followed by vomiting; the ingesta escaping by the 
nostrils. Cold perspirations, quick breathing, tremors, a rapid 
and indistinct pulse, &c., succeeded ; and she gradually sank, 
and died in the course of the evening. 
On making a post-mortem examination the next morning, it 
was found that the immediate cause of death was a rupture 
of the stomach. The rent was a very large one, and all the 
ingesta had escaped into the abdominal cavity. A large 
tumour was existing on the ileum, inclining to one side and 
attached to the peritoneal surface. It was about six pounds 
in weight, and was one of the largest 1 had ever seen. It had 
not, however, apparently interfered with the passage of the 
aliment through the intestine. 
The owner informed me that he had heard that the mare had 
been sold and resold by two or three different persons lately, 
