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March 10, 11, 12, 13.—Still no results. Constant injections. 
March 14.—Having stopped four days, commenced physics 
again. Gave aloe, § ss, podophyl, grs. x, a.m. and p.m., with 
injections. 
Maich 15 a.m.—Ho action. In considerable pain, Gave pill 
same as yesterday. P. M.—Has had considerable pain all the 
afternoon, and toward evening passed small quantity of soft 
feces. 
March 16 a.m.—Enormous quantity of feces passed, looking 
like cow dung. 
March 20.—Animal eating well, bowels operating regular. 
Here were twenty-three days passed without one single opera¬ 
tion of bowels, and during this time the animal had partaken of 
no solid food, simply the water that was given him had a quantity 
of bran and salt stirred in it, and of this he partook of but very 
little ; yet he did not seem to lose much flesh. At no time did 
he show the acute pain of spasmodic colic—simply constantly 
uneasy, excepting after physics, when pain was more severe; 
neither did he become tympanitic to any extent. 
Let us also notice amount of drugs: aloes, § viii, podophyl- 
lin, 3 ii 1-8? olei. lini. cong., ii x, besides mix. vom., which 
was given constantly, and others. If any veterinary surgeon lias 
record of case anywhere near equalling this, please let us know; 
then we can the more easily believe this. 
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CASES TREATED WITH PHYSOSTIGMKE. 
By J. Nettelton, M.R.C.Y.S. 
These consist of the reports of five cases of colics of various 
nature treated by that medicine. 
Case No. 1 is a black gelding, suffering with impaction of the 
bowels. He had been in pain for twenty-four hours, and had 
received at intervals, but without effect, 3 vi of aloes, two pints of 
linseed oil and 7, vi of nitrous ether. When first seen 3 i of phy- 
sostigmioe was cautiously administered by injections. For the 
first twenty minutes no change was observed, but afterwards the 
