Veterinary notes for horse owners : a manual of horse medicine and surgery . , may present a rounded mass of about a foot broad, witha depression in its centre. In some cases, the bowel itself comesdown. It may come on from straining due to colic, constipation, foal-ing, or sexual excitement, or from paralysis. TREATMENT.—Remove any impacted dung, and endeavour, bysteady pressure, to replace the part after having anointed it freely CALCULI. 437 with oil. If this does not succeed, scarify the mucous membranefreely with a lancet, and encourage the bleeding by the applicationof warm water, and, w
Veterinary notes for horse owners : a manual of horse medicine and surgery . , may present a rounded mass of about a foot broad, witha depression in its centre. In some cases, the bowel itself comesdown. It may come on from straining due to colic, constipation, foal-ing, or sexual excitement, or from paralysis. TREATMENT.—Remove any impacted dung, and endeavour, bysteady pressure, to replace the part after having anointed it freely CALCULI. 437 with oil. If this does not succeed, scarify the mucous membranefreely with a lancet, and encourage the bleeding by the applicationof warm water, and, when the swelling has gone down, againattempt to replace the part. Keep the animal for some days onsoft food, in which a pint of linseed oil may be given daily withadvantage. Wests Uterine and Anal Clamp, made by Huish, isa very useful instrument in these cases. Calculi and Concretions. NATURE.—In the bowels of the horse, especially in the largeintestine, and very rarely in the stomach, are sometimes foundballs of undigested material, which occasionally may attain to a. Fig. 143,—Phosphatic calculus, diameter of five or six inches, or even more. As they becomelarger and larger, they usually cause death eventually from ob-struction and pain. They are of three varieties. (1) Phosphaticcalculi (Fig. 143), which looks like rounded and polished stones,and are chiefly composed of phosphate of magnesia and are of a much greater specific gravity than the other twokinds. An ordinary weight for these calculi is 2 or 3 lbs.; althoughthey may, in exceptional cases, be as heavy as 16 lbs., or evenmore. The term calculus {calx, chalk) should, correctly speak-ing, be restricted to this variety; and the other two might becalled concretions. When a phosphatic calculus is found inthe stomach, we may feel certain that it has been passed into thatorgan from the intestines; because the acid nature of the gastricjuice would prevent its formation in the stomach. (2) Oat-hair 438 DISEAS
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