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ORIPES OR FRET. 



JL HIS Disease is extremely common^ and very frequently proves 

 fatal, in the course of a few hours. 



A costive state of the bowels, and drinking suddenly, a large quan-, 

 ftity of cold water, especially when the Animal has been heated by 

 -exercise, or exhausted by hunger and fatigue, are the usual exciting 

 causes, of this complaint amongst Horses. But there are instances 

 of Horses, which are very liable to be attacked with the disorder^ 

 •without being exposed to any palpable exciting cause. The extreme . 

 urgency and violence of the symptoms, in Spasmodic Cholic, are 

 s.ufficiently characteristic of the nature of the Disease, and distin- 

 i guish it most clearly and decidedly, from Idiopathic Inflammation 

 of the rBowels, with which it has been frequently confounded, by 

 some authors who have written on the Diseases of Horses. 



In slight attacks, the Horse does not exhibit symptoms of very 

 TJolent pain, but p?.ws occasionally, lies down frequently, and rises 



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