C H O L I C, &e. 329 



curate infpedion of the enlightened praflitionci , 

 the may perhaps appear to be more the col« 

 lefted eftafions of /i^;?ry'than the efFeft ofyV^- 

 77ient. As it is not, however, the prefent in- 

 tention to divert the mind to former modes of 

 pradic^, let us endeavour to mak:^ the diftindl 

 caufes of complaint properly underftood, pre- 

 vious to the introdudion of fuch courfe of 

 medicines as experience\\^% clearly demonftrated 

 moft fafe and applicable to the relief of diieafes, 

 upon which we proceed to treat. 



The diforders to which horfes are mofl 

 fubjed in the ftomach and bowels (exclufive of 

 thofe occafioned by worms and bots, already 

 feparately treated on) are thofe kin^^s of Cholic 

 which it will be neceffary to diil:inguini as the 

 flatulent and irflammatory. The Flatulent 

 Cholic is that Ipecies of inttdinal pain, occa- 

 fioned by an accumulation and retention of 

 wind, which, by its expanding force, in a 

 conftant fluduation and effort for difcharo-c. 

 extends the ftomach and inteftines to a certain' 

 degree (or perhaps their utmoft elaflicity)^ 

 when coming into dired oppofition with the 

 contrading power of the abdominal mufcles, 

 fertain pain is excited in a greater or lefs de- 



oree, 



