ACUTE INDIGESTION. 
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to give an account of a case which I was recently called upon 
to treat. 
The patient was a carriage horse, owned by C. A. Sherri- 
dan, M.D., of Oswego. On the evening of January 28, 1900, I 
was called to the boarding stable, where the horse was kept, 
and found him suffering with a very severe attack of acute in¬ 
digestion. I learned upon inquiry that the Doctor had been 
driving quite late, and that the horse being fed at once upon 
coming in, had eaten his feed but had been almost immediately 
taken sick. When I arrived he was regurgitating gas from the 
stomach to a degree that I had never seen before. 
I undertook to administer a dose of aromatic spirits of am¬ 
monia in a capsule, but he could not swallow it, but when 
partly swallowed he would expel it with great force. After 
two or three unsuccessful attempts with this, I tried ether in 
a drench, but with the same result, the horse rapidly getting 
worse, and so I concluded to pass the probang, which I did, 
holding the mouth open with the speculum. 
As soon as the probang reached the stomach the horse re¬ 
ceived instantaneous relief, as the gas rushed out through the 
tube in a great volume. When it ceased I cautiously withdrew 
the probang when, to my great surprise, a large stream of blood 
followed, coming through the mouth and nostrils. The horse 
staggered and fell, came to his feet again, reeled around the box 
stall, reared up on his haunches, throwing his nose over the 
partition in such shape that he was in a perpendicular position 
in the corner of the stall, blowing blood all over everything 
around him. 
Just then his owner, the Doctor, came in, and I told him I 
thought the end was not far off. While we stood watching him 
he fell over, and giving one or two convulsive struggles, came 
to his feet and soon became more quiet. After waiting a few 
moments I succeeded in administering a dose of oil of turpen¬ 
tine, soon following that with a dose of snlphuric ether. He 
gradually improved and in three or four days had made a com¬ 
plete recovery. 
