.T. C. MYERS, .TR. 
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INTESTINAL INCARCERATION CAUSER RY HEPATIC 
ADHESIONS. 
By John C. Meyer, Jr., D.V.S. 
The following is an abstract taken from my note-book, of a 
post-mortem report, which is probably worth describing, as the 
anomalia found in the liver of the subject is, no doubt, exceed¬ 
ingly rare. 
On the 9th of last October, I was requested to visit a bay car¬ 
riage gelding, aged 10 years, that had been' suffering with colicy 
pains during the foregoing night. On reaching the place, about 
four miles distant, I found the animal dead in the orchard. Upon 
my suggestion the owner authorized me to make an autopsy, 
which resulted in discovering a strangulation of a large portion of 
the small intestines, in a very peculiar manner. The precursory 
cause of this constriction was the existence of an abnormal orifice, 
formed by bands of adhesion, extending from the superior border 
of the right lobe of the liver, in a vertical direction, to the dorsal 
vertebrae, attaching themselves at two different points, about two 
inches apart, creating an oval aperture three inches in length. 
The liver itself also entered into the constriction of the opening, 
by being deeply notched between the adhesions. This notch had 
been unquestionably increasing in the course of time, owing to the 
constant traction produced by the weight of the liver, it being sus¬ 
pended from the spine by the bands of adhesion. The ring was 
remarkably strengthened by a fibrous band encircling its inner 
border, which was very tenacious and served in retaining the ori¬ 
fice firmly open. Through this orifice about ten feet of the small 
intestines had slipped, where they became incarcerated by being 
hung upon the lower end of the ring (this phenomena may be 
illustrated by hanging a portion of intestines upon a hook), while 
the remainder of the small intestines were behind the liver, sup¬ 
ported by their mesenteric attachments, consequently suffering no 
