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not eat his supper; had done his work well and was not over¬ 
driven. About 4 a. m. Tuesday morning the coachman was 
awakened by hearing him pawing; came down to the stable, but 
as the horse did not seem to be very bad, went back to bed and 
did not see the horse again until six. At this time he was quite 
sick, being up and down; having nothing else to give him, gave 
some whiskey. Soon after, by direction of the owner, the coach¬ 
man went in search of a man to do something for the horse. A 
man was found, and armed with a syringe proceeds to the stable 
and attempts to give an injection. The syringe was an old brass 
one, in the nozzle of which was a piece of leaky rubber tubing. 
Into this tubing was inserted a wooden tube about an incli in 
diameter and nine in length, terminating in a round blunt end. 
Several injections were given with this apparatus, which did not 
seem to relieve the animal any, but in fact the horse grew worse. 
About 2 p. m. the coachman sent to the hospital for some one 
to come and see the horse, and on my arrival at the stable I 
found the horse, as I have previously mentioned, apparently suf¬ 
fering from a severe attack of spasmodic colic. On inquiry I 
found the horse had then been sick about ten hours, had been 
given injections, a dose of whiskey, and a dose of some other 
medicine. 
The horse was in constant and excessive pain, would neither 
stand or lie still scarcely long enough to take the pulse, which 
was about 60 to 70, countenance very anxious, the respiration 
much accelerated, the body covered with profuse perspiration. I 
was in the act of inserting my hand to examine the condition of 
the foeces, if there were any in the rectum, when I observed a 
little blood flowing from the anus. The coachman told me that 
the horse had been bleeding like that for an hour or two. 
I then inserted my hand in the rectum and found a consider¬ 
able quantity of clotted and liquid blood—at least a large cupful. 
The horse made violent efforts to expel my hand at first, but after 
a short time I was enabled to examine the condition of the walls 
of the rectum. I found two spots where there were lacerations 
of the superior surface of the rectum to a considerable extent, 
and was well satisfied that the perforation was complete, but as 
