HORSES AND MULES. 829 



ounces; sulpluir, three ounces; aloes, one ounce. ^^l^c and 

 divide into eighteen powders; give one, night and morning, 

 in the feed. This will bring away any not firmly attached, and 

 will promote digestion. The awful doses sometimes given for 

 bots, we condemn. SouR Stomach is liable to trouble the 

 lior.se at almost any time ; it is caused by fermentation of the 

 food; grass after eating hay; too. much food after fasting, and 

 other like causes. Fermentation produces gas, the gas dis 

 tends the intestines, and the horse has CoLic, inflammation 

 of the bowels, Enteritis, (fret, gripes,) or Spasmodic Colic 

 which though called by the above dift'ering names, is sub- 

 stantially the same, and has three stages. The symptoms 

 are, first stage, uneasiness, eating stopped, });iuiiig with fore foot, 

 hind foot raised to the belly, the nose points to the flank. 

 Second stage, spasms, they grow more frequent and more violent : 

 the sufferer sweats and trembles ; he assumes various positions 

 to obtain relief. Third siagc, he suddenly lies down, rolls, 

 kicks, and as suddenly comes to his feet again. He is now in 

 terrible pain, and in danger every moment of a rupiurc of the 

 bowels, and instant death. The treatment for the colic is so 

 simple that a child can understand it, and yet many persist in 

 turning all kinds of nostrums into the already terribly inflamed 

 stomach. During the first stage, give a tablcspoonful of chloro- 

 form in a gill of whisk}', and a jiint of wai-ni wator. In case 

 the chloroform is not ri It at hand, dissolve in a jtint of hot 

 water all the salt it will; ssolve, and give as hot as the horse 

 will take it. Now inject pint of warm soapsuds. If you have 

 no syringe, put it in a loi.g necked bottle and turn t into th«' 

 rectum, or turn it through a tunnel. Secure a disci .'ge from 

 the bowels and the horse is saved. If the disease ^ reached 

 the second, and especial',' the third stage, the h')r.-« mu.st be 

 bled before anv other tr< tment. 



