HORSES: THEIR POINTS AND MANAGEMENT 



affecting the liorso. If the animal survives two or three days 

 the urine grows lighter. 



General Management. — In some instances it is a good plan 

 to put the animal in slings. If on the ground we think that 

 slinging is not of much importance. Give a good thick bed of 

 straw, and obtain professional assistance at once. 



ACUTE DYSPEPSIA. 



Gorged stomach is of very common occurrence in the horse, 

 being brought about through distension of the organ with bulky 

 or indigestible food. A long spell of work without food, followed 

 by a large feed, is particularly liable to produce this disorder. 

 Both of the foregoing causes tend to impair the functional 

 activities of the stomach, consequently, its duties begin to fail, 

 and the arrested food undergoes decomposition, resulting in the 

 production of gas, thus further increasing the disorder. 



Symptoms. — The layman should not have much difficulty 

 in satisfying himself whether his horse is suffering from this 

 affection. The animal is restless at first, pawing with the fore 

 feet, lies down, but soon rises again, continually repeating those 

 movements. It will be evident that the horse has pain in the 

 belly, but it is not so severe as in the case of ordinary bellyache 

 (colic or gripes). The pain, though not steadily continuous, is 

 hardly of the remittent character observed in this latter com- 

 plaint. Sometimes it continues to annoy the horse for hours, 

 and were it not for the absence of cold sweats the small, sharp, 

 hard pulse beats, along with other signs, one would not find it 

 difficult to believe that it was inflammation of the stomach or 

 bowels. 



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