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Humiliation of the bowels. Prognosis, in view of the previous 
treatment and the nature of the disease, unfavorable. Treatment, 
small doses of tincture of aconite and rectal injections, soothing 
in character. (I dared give him nothing more on account of the 
rubbish the quack had put in him.) On the 20th, to my surprise, 
the tenderness on pressure had almost entirely disappeared, the 
horse showed no symptoms of pain, the pulse was slower and 
softened by the aconite, the temperature 102 °, no desire for 
food, no passage of faices. Treatment: 
Olen Lini, Ounce, 
Pot. carb. 3 ii. 
Ext. bellad. plv. 3 ii, 
M ft. Haust. 
the injections continued. 
22 d.—Condition unchanged. Thinking the retention of faeces 
might be due to gastric influenza, gave— 
Ammon, carb. 3 i, 
Cinchon. carb. pulv. 3 i, 
Ext. bellad. (solid.) 3 b 
M. ft. bal. in X, 
Dose. —One three times daily. 
Continued the rectal injections and gave milk, eggs and 
whiskey as nourishment. 
24th.—No passage, some return of appetite, passage of con¬ 
siderable mucous debris from the rectum, temperature 101°5. 
Continued treatment. 
26th.—No passage, general condition unchanged. Treatment 
by advice of a professional friend, 
Ext. fld. verat. virid. 3 b 
Give at once and follow in an hour by one and one-half pints 
of linseed oil. 
28th.—No passage, return of symptoms of uneasiness, entire 
disgust of food. 
30th.—Still no passage from the bowels, treatment as a last 
resort, an aleetic purgative. August 2nd, death ; August 3rd, 
made a post mortem examination. Found all the viscera healthy, 
