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Jiaps appear to be more the collected effu- 

 sions oifancy than the effects oi'judg?nenf. 

 As it is not^ however, the present intention 

 to divert the mind to former modes of prac- 

 tice, let us endeavour to make the distinct 

 causes of complaint properly understood, 

 previous to the introduction of such course 

 pf medicines as experience has clearly demon- 

 strated most safe and applicable to the re- 

 lief of diseases, upon which we proceed to 

 treat. 



The disorders to which horses are most 

 3ubject in the stomach and bowels (exclu- 

 sive of those occasioned by worms and bots, 

 already separately treated on) are those kinds 

 pf Cholic which it will be necessary to dis- 

 tinguish as the Jiatulent and injiammatovy. 

 The Flatulent Cholic is that species of in- 

 testinal pain, occasioned by an accumulation 

 and retention of wind, which, by its expand- 

 ing force, in a constant fluctuation and effort 

 for discharge, extends the stomach and in-r 

 testines to a certain degree (or perhaps their 

 utmost elasticity) ; when coming into direct 

 opposition with the contracting power of the 

 abdominal muscles, certain pain is excited in 



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