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Quinine, nnx vomica, pepsin, may be used to improve tone. 

 The diet is usually all important. Well boiled gruels, boiled 

 milk, arrowroot, pulped or scraped raw flesh may be demanded 

 in different cases. The patient should be kept at perfect rest, 

 and all excitement avoided. 



COLIC, ENTERALGIA, INTESTINAL SPASM. 



Definition. Colicy pains from spasm, enteralgia, tympanitic indigestion, 

 overloading of bowels, impaction, calculi, concretions, sand, foreign bodies, in- 

 testinal and arterial parasites, irritants, enteritis, catarrhal, bacteridian, proto- 

 zoan, chemicals, strangulation, adhesion, volvulus, invagination, hernia, trau- 

 ma of stomach or intestine, peritonitis, pleuritis, metritis, ovaritis, hepatitis, 

 biliary calculus, nephritis, urinary calculus, neoplasms, lead poisoning. 

 Causes of enteralgia or spasm, idiosyncrasy, nervousness, cold, wet, high 

 condition, debility, cold, rain, dew, perspiration, fatigue, indigestion, rheu- 

 matism. Symptoms : horse — sudden attack, paws, kicks, anxious look at 

 flank, crouches, goes down, rolls, sits, rises, shakes himself, feeds, repeats 

 at intervals, rumbling, defecations. Complications. Diagnosis, symptoms 

 violent, transient, completely intermittent, no fever, no tenderness ; from 

 acute indigestion by absence of faulty feed, loaded or tj'mpanitic abdomen^ 

 crepitation, continuous pain, and of careful decubitus; from constipation 

 by complete intermissions and freer passages ; from intestinal worms by 

 absence of fur on anus, of rubbed rump, and of parasites in stools ; from 

 verminous thrombosis by complete intermissions and absence of prostra- 

 tion, cold sweats and of bloody stools ; from enteritis and other inflamma- 

 tions by absence of fever; from intestinal anthrax by the intermissions, the 

 absence of brownish mucosa, and perhaps of anthrax from the district ; 

 from hepatitis by absence of icterus, tender hypochondrium, and fever; from 

 kidney affections by lack of stiff, straddling gait, tender loins, stretching ; 

 from pleurisy by absence of catching breathing, tender intercostals, and 

 friction sound ; ruminants — similar symptoms except sitting up or rolling ; 

 swine — sudden starting with grunt or scream, vomiting, etc. ; Carnivora — 

 frequent moving, yelps, snapping, straining, looking at flank. Treatment : 

 solipeds, morphia subcutem, anodynes, laxative, friction, walking, enemata, 

 chloral hydrate : ruminants, walking, enemata, morphia, laxative; swine, 

 morphia, laxative, antispasmodics, injections, derivatives ; dog, — purgative, 

 injections, chloral hydrate, ether, olive oil. 



The term colic is loosely applied to all abdominal pains from 

 whatever cause they may arise. It is thtis allowed to embrace 



