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commonly used, as a city horse is used to drinking water which is 

 warmer in summer, and colder in winter, than water taken from a 

 pump ; washing the belly with cold water ; driving horses into a 

 pond of cold water. 



Treatment. Give something to heat the stomach and bowels. 

 Try a bottle of warm ale or porter, adding a little whiskey, or a 

 teaspoonful of ground ginger to it. If relief be not obtained in half 

 an hour give a drench, composed of tincture of aconite root, 

 twenty-five drops ; spirit of turpentine, one ounce ; one bottle of 

 cold ale or porter. If necessary, give injections of warm water 

 (not hot), soap, and a handful of table salt. Occasionally walk the 

 horse about, to excite the bowels to action. 



(2.) Stercoral Colic. — Symptoms. Similar to the above variety, 

 but continues longer, and is not quite so severe or painful. 



Causes. Impaction or constipation of the bowels. 



Treatment. Powdered aloes, one ounce ; tincture of aconite root, 

 twenty-five drops ; chloroform, half an ounce. Mix in a bottle of 

 ale or porter, and give in a drench out of a horn, or stout bottle. 

 The aconite will have to be given every four hours, till the pain 

 has given way. Encourage the operation of the aloes by injections 

 every hour. 



(3.) Flatulent Colic. — Symptoms. Pain is considerable at first, 

 which in a few hours gives way to sleepiness (see Coma). This is 

 caused by distension of the bowels with gas, commonly called 

 wind, thereby paralyzing the parvagus and nerve centres, and 

 ultimately the brain itself. This variety of colic is readily distin- 

 guished from the others by the swelling of the belly, particularly 

 at the flanks, called tympanitis, or drum-belly. 



Causes. Indigestion of food in the stomach ; fermentation is set 

 up, and there is evolution (giving forth) of carbonic acid gas. This 

 gas is not liberated per rectum from the body as speedily as 

 generated. The horse and cow cannot belch or eruct wind from 

 their stomachs as man and the dog can ; hence the frequency of 

 tympanitis in horses and cows. 



Treatment. Try injections first, as in many cases I have cured 

 this variety by this means alone. If gas or wind come away wiUi 

 the injection, the case will soon end well. When no benefit is de- 

 rived from the injections, give, in a little cold water, aloes in pow- 



