A treatise on the horse : its diseases, lameness, and improvement : in which is laid down the proper method of shoeing the different kinds of feet ... / by William Osmer.

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1830
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    think, incurable disease, with some accuracy; and, in their Recueil Veterinaire, a well-marked case is recorded, towards the commencement of the pre- sent year, in which the symptoms (tuberculous) were noted with instructive exactness. Introsuscep- tion is the scientific term applied to the strangul- lion or mistakenly supposed “ twisting of the guts ;” which, in fact, consists in nothing more than the tubercle, which has formed on the small gut (ileum), by its weight dragging down a portion of the gut through its subsequent foldings, and thereby causing the strangulation above and below, as de- scribed by William Osmer; his induration of the fceces having precisely the same effect as the French case of tuberculous affection. The next well-marked case put on record, was that of the King’s favorite gelding Adonis, as reported by Mr. Goodwin, in September, 1829, whilst we were yet at press. [The symptoms attending this attack were those of the second kind of colic described above, page 124, and which are in effect the same as those characterised in “ Veterinary Surgery,” page 253, as inflammatory, and proper to be distinguished from the first, or spasmodic-flatulent kind. Mr. Goodwin “ conceived the attack to proceed from spasms,” though “ the horse often threw him- self down, making efforts to lie on his back, look- ing back at his flanks with a peculiar anxiety;” which symptoms are characteristic of inflammation of the intestines, and not of spasmodic colic, espe-