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INTUSSUSCEPTION OF THE SMALL INTESTINES 
OF TWO POINTER PUPPIES. 
By Professor Varnell, Royal Veterinary College. 
During the month of April last Mr. T. M. Leech, 
M.R.C.V.S., Bakewell, forwarded to the College for my 
inspection the abdominal viscera of a young pointer puppy, 
which had died from intussusception of the small intestines, 
that had occurred in no less than four distinct places. The 
case was a very interesting one ; but what made it more so 
was the circumstance that another puppy of the same litter 
had died from the same disease, and at about the same time ; 
its bowels being also invaginated in the same number of 
places. At the time the morbid specimen was sent I re¬ 
ceived a letter from Mr. Leech, detailing the full particulars 
of the cases, but this has unfortunately been mislaid. Since 
then I have received the following brief account, which I 
here insert: 
Bakewell ; Sept. 17 , 1864 . 
Dear Sir, —The cases referred to in my former letter 
occurred in two pointer puppies, which died from the effects 
of intussusception of the bowels. The singularity of these 
cases is that intussusception existed in no less than four 
separate places in each dog . I have never before seen this 
lesion in more places than one, either in the dog, the horse, or 
any other animal. 
Yours faithfully, 
T. M. Leech. 
I am not aware that intussusception is more common in 
the dog than in other animals; indeed, I have always thought 
that the dog was comparatively exempt from this affection. 
Unfortunately, in whatever animal it occurs, it is one of 
those maladies which we are unable to diagnose correctly, so 
nearly do the symptoms resemble those arising from other 
causes. But even if we were able to assert that the symptoms 
in any particular case depended upon intussusception of the 
bowels, we know of no certain means of affording relief. If 
a cure is effected at all, it takes place very often in the same 
way as the invagination had occurred, viz., by accident. 
In many diseases also of the intestines which arise from 
other causes we are not unfrequently in the same dilemma; 
for instance, in strangulation of the intestines from the 
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