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Title: Elementary lectures on veterinary science, for agricultural students, farmers, and stockkeepers ..
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Thompson, Henry
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Publisher: London, Baillière, Tindall and Cox
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Fig. 7.—Tubercular Mesentery of Horse. I. Portion of small intestine.2, 2. Mesentery.3, 3, 3. Tubercular deposits. (Unroll from 8 to 10 inches of twist tobacco, and put in a quart ofboiling water, strain, and when as warm as new milk—^.^., 98° to100° F.—give as an enema.) If this does not give relief veterinaryaid should at once be summoned, when possibly the intestine mayhave to be punctured to allow the gas to escape, as in par. 242.Sometimes 2 ounces of bicarbonate of soda in a pint of water, withJ pint of whisky, is found to answer well when the animal is THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS 163 not much pained, or ball (par. 1062, No. IL). Both flatulent andspasmodic colic, if not attended to, may run on and terminate inenteritis or fatally from rupture of the stomach or bowel. 257. Enteritis, or inflammation of the bowels, is, as a rule, avery fatal disease in the horse, death frequently taking place in five
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Fig. 8.—Strangulated Intestine of Horse. 1. Neck of tumour overlapping small intestine. 2. Portion of small intestine.3. Knot in neck of tumour. 4. Mesentery. 5. Tumour •;plit open. or six hours. The symptoms at the onset are much the same asthose exhibited in colic, but more severe, and with this exception—that in enteritis there are no intervals of rest^ the pain being continuous.There is a peculiar dejected appearance and an anxious expressionon the animals face ; the nostrils are dilated and very red inside,and excessive perspiration covers the body, followed by cold, clammy 164 VETERINARY LECTURES sweats. At length the pain disappears, the animal stands quietly,trembling, and sighing heavily; the pulse, which at first was full andbounding, now becomes small, weak, and scarcely perceptible, whenthe patient finally drops and dies. 258. Numerous lesions of the horses bowels also occur, such aslarge clots of blood found between the outer and inner walls of theintestine, the sym

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