. The common colics of the horse : their causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment . e bowels. The only medicine adminis-teved was stimulants,^ and warm-water injections five orsix times a day. This went on for eighteen days, whenthe mare died during the night. A post-mortem revealeda large calculus in the colon, and showed that the actualcause of death was ruptured colon, while an enormousmass of ingesta was found in the bowels. The calculuswas 3|- pounds in weight, and seemed composed princi-pally of faecal matter. The animal had been in theowners possession four or five years, and had not
. The common colics of the horse : their causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment . e bowels. The only medicine adminis-teved was stimulants,^ and warm-water injections five orsix times a day. This went on for eighteen days, whenthe mare died during the night. A post-mortem revealeda large calculus in the colon, and showed that the actualcause of death was ruptured colon, while an enormousmass of ingesta was found in the bowels. The calculuswas 3|- pounds in weight, and seemed composed princi-pally of faecal matter. The animal had been in theowners possession four or five years, and had not beenill before. There are two things that appeal to one in the reportof that case. The first is the marvellous manner in ^ Veterinaiy Record, vol. xiv., p. The italics are mine.—H. C. R. SURGICAL TREATMENT 169 which it points to the advantages of a solely stimulativetreatment. It would be hard to imagine an animal withobstructive colic being dosed with sedatives and thenlingering on in the same manner for so long a time aseighteen days. The fact of the matter is this : The. Fig. S.—Calculus obstructing Small Colon (Mr. Hardings Case). general abandonment of sedatives in veterinary equinepractice would undoubtedly lead to the better diagnosisof colic troubles. I feel that it has already increasedmy own powers in that respect, and what it will do forme it will do for others. I70 THE COMMON COLICS OF THE HORSE Secondly, one is forcibly struck by the grand oppor-tunity this subject would have afforded for operativemeasures if only a successful diagnosis could have beenmade during life. I would fain hope that in this way the future successof laparo-enterotomy lies. It may be that a long seriesof colic cases treated without sedatives will eventuallylead to a greater and more frequent exactness in thediagnosis of these obstructions ; that being done, theoperation will follow naturally. This cannot be expecteduntil a solely stimulant treatment is adopted by a largenumber of v
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