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whatever having taken place, nor even a sound heard within the 
abdominal walls, notwithstanding the fact that the horse had 
received rectal injections (of which only a small percentage had 
returned at time of injection) and had been walked after being 
induced to drink water. At this time the horse began to droop 
and seemed somewhat uneasy again, and I determined to once 
more resort to violent measures while my patient was still alive,, 
as I feared lest he might leave me suddenly ; taking into con¬ 
sideration his age and the fact that he had neither eaten nor 
passed anything for three days, I administered hypodermically 
Physostigma salicylatis, grs. ii. 
Pilocarpine muriatis, grs. iii. 
Aquae dest., fl 3 ii. 
M. et fiat solutio hypodernaica. 
warning the attendant that we would have to witness some ter¬ 
rible distress, and assuring him that I would stay with him 
until it was over ; but immediately after giving it, I was called 
away to a colic case, and returning in about thirty-five minutes 
I was told to mind where I stepped, and on looking observed 
that the place was deluged with the watery stools which were 
passing from the horse at short intervals, each time seeming as 
though flood-gates had been opened, and according to the atten¬ 
dant’s statement, there was an evacuation after very violent roll¬ 
ing and groaning twenty minutes after administering the medi¬ 
cine. Each evacuation was of a very liquid consistency, heavily 
charged with whole oats. These evacuations continued for 
about two hours and a half, when they suddenly ceased and there 
was no movement of the bowels whatever for the next twenty- 
four hours, despite the fact that a quart of flaxseed tea was ad¬ 
ministered every two hours during the twenty-four hours follow¬ 
ing the cessation of the action of the eserin and pilocarpine, and, 
in fact, for the next four days. However, at the end of those 
twenty-four hours a passage of hard faecal matter was accom¬ 
plished, consisting almost entirely of whole oats (the horse’s 
diet at this time being made up entirely of carrots and apples), 
another evacuation followed twelve hours later of the same con¬ 
sistency and heavily charged with whole oats, and after this 
about one scanty passage every eight hours for the next two or 
three days, all containing large quantities of oats, although the 
horse was subsisting entirely upon carrots, apples, and flaxseed 
tea, no oats having been offered and he persistently, refusing 
bran and hay. 
With the hope of stimulating the appetite so as to get him to 
