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that their form and nature are identical in almost 

 f\vry respect it being impossible that the stom- 

 ach should be affected without the intestines, or 

 the intestines and not the stomach. 



CAUSES. 



Protracted cases of colic often leave the 

 stomach and bowels in a highly inflamed condi- 

 tion, with pulse much hurried but very weak, 

 sometimes hardly perceptible ; legs and ears 

 cold ; belly very tender to the touch ; constant 

 pain ; sudden and great prostration ; respiration 

 more and more quick, and signs of very great 

 suffering; eyes present a wild, stareing and hag- 

 gard appearance ; pupils dilated ; sometimes 

 making such violent ado as to make approach 

 hazardous. But all of a sudden, from his ap- 

 parent calmness, his master may imagine that 

 he is going to recover. But only a momentary 

 delusion lulls his fears for all at once he starts 

 up in the most intense agony, and it is soon evi- 

 dent that the insidious giant is about reaching 

 the very vitals of the sufferer ; mortification if 

 not already begun, now sets in and closes the 

 scene. 



TREATMENT. 



If cases of this disease have been incorrectly 

 diagnosed (and consequently mistreated) or neg- 

 lected until the above symptoms are present, give 

 the poor animal something to lull his dying 

 groans. But if taken in time give him ^ oz, of 

 Oil Turpentine and 8 grains Valerianate of Mor- 

 phia in flax seed tea or browned flour gruel, every 

 4 hours ; and as an alternating fever dose a com- 

 mon teaspoonful of tincture Aconite, every four 



