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quiet for two or three minutes, as if perfectly 

 recovered. In inflammation, the pain increases 

 after a trot. There are, also, short intervals of 

 ease during gripes, but none during inflamma- 

 tion. 



In gripes, he often rolls quite over : in in- 

 flammation very seldom. 



In gripes, he frequently commences picking 

 at grass : in inflammation, I believe, never. 



Rubbing the belly relieves the gripes : it in- 

 creases the pain in inflammation. 



The pulse is generally natural at the com- 

 mencement of gripes, becoming fuller and 

 quicker after a couple of hours or so, but not 

 rising above sixty. In inflammation, it is never 

 natural, but much accelerated at the com- 

 mencement of the disease ; not full, but small, 

 and scarcely to be felt, and rising in four or 

 ^ye hours to eighty or ninety, or more. 



Gripes, are not so often mistaken for inflam- 

 mation of the bowels, as inflammation of the 

 bowels for gripes. 



Treatment. — Gripes from bajree and nihut. 

 These are generally easily cured. Three drachms 

 of flnely-powdered black pe2)per in a quart of 

 hot, (do not burn his throat,) greasy mutton 

 broth. 



