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or ground, arches the back, looks around to the flank, 

 and attempts to lie down, kicks at the belly and rolls on 

 the ground, seems to improve and will go to eating and 

 remain that way for a short time when the spasms again 

 affect him and the symptoms are repeated as before; it 

 might be mentioned that the quiet spells are not shown 

 as plainly in wind colics, in which disease the pains are 

 more continuous and the breathing hastened and difficult, 

 due to the pressure of the distended bowels on the dia- 

 phragm, which pressure affects the lungs, limiting the 

 area for those organs to do their work. Rubbing the 

 belly seems to afford relief; colic cases often recover 

 without treatment; it should be remembered that colic, 

 strictly speaking, is not a disease, but a symptom of pain 

 in the intestines. The pulse is usually full and frequent; 

 there may be patches of perspiration on the body. In- 

 favorable symptoms are a cold, wet, clammy condition of 

 the body, high temperature, haggard expression of the 

 face, frequent, hard small pulse, together with difficult 

 breathing; if the animal passes urine it may be consid- 

 ered a favorable symptom, as showing the spasms have 

 relaxed, must have done so to release the sphincter mus- 

 cle at the neck of the bladder; in this connection it may 

 be stated that horses are seldom affected with urinary 

 troubles, although the above symptom often misleads 

 people, who say: "the horse has something the matter 

 with its water," when such is not the case. 



Treatment should be immediate, one of the following 

 prescriptions may be used: 



