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3fnfiammation of t])t Botoels. 



NFLAMMATION of the Bowels of Horses, though not quite so 

 common as Inflammation of the Lungs, is, nevertheless, a disease 

 of a more dangerous kind, and very frequently ends fatally. — This 

 disease, which, in many hooks of Farriery, is called the Red Cholic, 

 in cbntradistinction to the Spasmodic Cholic or Gripes, is, neverthe- 

 less, too frequently confounded with it; and this circumstance has 

 occasioned a plan of treatment to be adopted, more calculated to ex- 

 asperate than to mitig-ate the symptoms of the disease. The Horse's 

 Bowels, moreover, are subject to two distinct species of inflammation. 

 One of these is comparatively mild in its nature, being confined to 

 the villous or internal coat, and is generally attended with purging, ac- 

 companied with a discharge of a slimy offensive matter, and sometimes 

 also withi the presence of a stringy fat-like substance, which is voided 

 along with the foeces. The other affects the peritoneal coat of the 

 intestines, is highly dangerous in its nature, and is almost always at- 

 tended with a costive state of the Rowels. Inflammation of the vil- 

 lous or internal coat of the Bowels, which 1 propose first to treat of, 

 is frequently brought on by exposure to extreme vicissitudes of heat 



