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R. B. CORCORAN 
Diagnosis. —Opium poisoning. 
Treatment. —Ice to the poll, small doses of whisky, ether, 
ammonia or gin every hour, large doses of coffee, thirty minutes’ 
exercise in every hour in the cold air, a liberal supply of cold wa¬ 
ter, of which he partook freely. All these symptoms became 
more aggravated up to midnight, when he fairly trotted a four 
minute gait, with his head so forcibly pressed against the stall as 
to threaten its destruction. Hoping against hope, I continued the 
above treatment all night, and in the morning had my patient 
convalescent, with the exception of nausea next day. He ap¬ 
peared none the worse, and went to work twenty-four hours after 
recovery. 
CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH. 
By R. B. Corcoran, V.S. 
[The following is sent to us through the kindness of the Quar¬ 
termaster-General at Washington, Gen. Meigs, for which our 
sincere thanks are respectfully tendered.— Ed.] 
Fort Walla Walla, W. T., ) 
December 31,1881. ) 
To the Quartermaster General : 
Sir. —I have the honor to report a case of chronic inflamma¬ 
tion of the stomach that might be interesting. Was called to at¬ 
tend a mule in Q. M. Dep’t, showing symptoms of colic. On 
examination I pronounced it ruptured stomach, as all symptoms 
accompanying such were present; attempts at vomition being 
continuous, sometimes succeeding in discharging flakes of mu¬ 
cous membrane from stomach. I kept the animal under the 
influence of opiates for a few hours, when it died. 
On post-mortem examination I found abdominal cavity partly 
filled with bloody serum. The smaller intestines showed symp¬ 
toms of recent acute inflammation. The lungs were congested 
and showed previous attacks of pneumonia; in the left ventricle 
of heart found a large fibrous clot, almost filling the cavity. On 
