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REPORTS OF CASES. 
I inquired into the case and found that the owner had driven 
the horse about a five-minute gait for five miles ; had put him 
in the barn and given a handful of cornstalks, but he was not i 
warm ; shortly after he showed symptoms of colic, when the 
owner sent for me, and also sent a dispatch for another veteri¬ 
narian., I arrived and left before he came, as I was in ignorance 
of the dispatch being sent. On examination I found pulse 
normal, temperature and respirations slightly above normal * 
eye bright; no signs of bloating ; had passed faeces twice, also i 
urinated. Diagnosed case as indigestion from cornstalks. Gave j 
a ball of aloin, 3 ii; calomel, 3 i. I stayed about one hour, and I 
as the patient showed no pain, I left some cannabis indica and i 
belladonna ; gave injection of soft water and soap, which he i 
passed with quite a little faeces, but still showed no pain. I left > 
with instructions to call me if he got in any pain, and should 
the medicine fail to quiet it. After I departed the other veter- ■ 
inarian arrived about lo o’clock ; said the patient was not very i 
sick (SO the owner told me), but gave an injection hypodermi- | 
cally of what I should judge was eserine and pilocarpine, or | 
eserine alone. It was not barium chloride, as the skin showed 
no effects of it at the point of injection. It set up considerable 
peristalsis; then he went to bed, saying he would be all right 
in the morning. He was suffering terrible pain, rolling on his 
back, intense straining, but passing nothing, ff'he owner sent 
for me three times. 1 arrived home about 7 that evening, but ^ 
pulled right out for Shabbona Grove, arriving there at ^.45 ; | 
got the history of the case since I had seen him last ; made an i 
examination found animal pulseless ; strangulation of bowel I 
in right inguinal ring, caused, in my opinion, by the eserine, as I 
it was not there before, x^nimal lived about 15 minutes. 
I held a post-mortem, and found the stomach badly torn, 
bowels showing there was a strangulation some place ; large in- I 
testines impacted with food ; small intestines completely eiiiptv ; 
abdominal cavity full of^ bloody fluid ; also piece of intestines’ j 
about SIX inches long, in the upper part of scrotum, but not ! 
extending down its entire depth ; this part of the bowel was | 
also empty and showed no mortification, which it would have j 
shown if it had been caused before the bowels emptied out. j 
ff'he question I wish to ask is : Was this death caused bv \ 
the eserine ? It is my opinion that it was, as I find in stallions | 
it is dangerous to use either eserine, pilocarpine, or barium j 
chloride, for just as sure as you do you will leave yourself liable | 
to produce this accident, ff'he first case I used it on it caused 
