ROE ON TIIK IIOIiSK. 13 



the. present day and professing the knowledge 

 and experience necessary for their use. 



Address, " A. H. ROE, 



GKAND RAPIDS, 



Michigan. 



LOLIC, 



Is divided into two kinds, Spasmodic and 

 Flatulent. The causes are set down as follows: 

 Drinking cold water when the horse is very warm; 

 change of food, as from old dry corn and hay, 

 to green corn or grass; exposure to cold air when 

 in a heated state. There seems to be a prone- 

 riess, or predisposition in many horses to this 

 complaint. In my opinion, however, the vast 

 majority of cases of colic are brought on through 

 overloading the stomach with hard and indigest- 

 ible food, where age and abuse have impaired 

 the digestive powers of that organ, and the food 

 taken in, instead of imparting its true nourish- 

 ment to the system, becomes a foreign substance; 

 ascidulates, Creating through that meansgasseous 

 substance, which instead of nourishing and up 

 building the system, (unless speedily changed or 

 carried off), destroys the life of its victim. 



SYMPTOMS. 



Of these painful and destructive maladies, 

 we will first treat the Flatulent form of this dis 

 ease, which comes on very suddenly ; pulse very 

 seldom much hurried beyond its natural beat in 



