General Management in Disease 



(inflammation of the bowels). The leading 

 symptoms of this disease are : acute pain in the 

 belly, of a continuous character ; a quick, small 

 and hard pulse; and in dogs, vomiting sometimes. 

 Horses roll ; sit upon their haunches ; and when, 

 the pain is excessively severe — as in strangulation 

 of the large gut — the patient may attempt to climb 

 the wall of the box, and scream with pain. The 

 stormy character of the disease sometimes leads 

 to death within an hour or two, whereas, in other 

 cases, the animal may continue in pain for days, 

 and then succumb. 



An amateur may easily confuse this with simple 

 functional colic, or the converse ; therefore it 

 shows how very necessary it is to seek pro- 

 fessional advice early. In any case inflammation 

 of the bowels in the horse, etc., is always fatal. 



Braxy 



This term is commonly applied to disease affecting 

 sheep and derives its name from "Broc"or "Brae," 

 terms used by hill shepherds as indicating disease 

 of any kind, though, in reality, it is a very 

 meaningless term. All sorts of pathological 

 conditions, such as diarrhoea ; anthrax ; dysentery ; 

 constipation •, etc. etc. may be classified as synony- 

 mous with braxy. 



Shepherds should exercise particular care when 



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