do 



little accustomed to exercise ; when marked by cos-* 

 tiveness, it may be treated as directed for that ; or if 

 attended by looseness, may rather be considered as a 

 spasmodic effort of nature to relieve itself of an un- 

 natural load. Let the symptoms be reduced accord- 

 ing as the state of the pulse may dictate — for which 

 consult again wliat is said under " Fever" as to bleed- 

 ing, and under " Co^tiveness" as to treating him for 

 that. If heat and irritation be perceivable to the touch 

 and signt about the anus, wiihout high pulse, the first 

 symptom may be reduced by administering the fol- 

 lowing 



SEDATIVE CLYSTER.— Camphor, four drachms 1 spirits of 

 wine, 3 or 4 drops ; to promote the solution, add sweet oil, 2 oun- 

 ces. Mix it well, and then add thin warm water gruel, two or three 

 quarts. 



Molten grease is rather an effect than a cause of 

 disease, and partakes of cholic in one of its forms and 

 of inflimmation in the other ; the symptoms which 

 distinguish one from the other are precisely those set 

 down at page 28. Allowing somewhat for the fever- 

 ish symptoms that always prevail wiih such fat and 

 bloated animals as are subject to this disorder, the 

 practitioner cannot commit himself to the guidance of 

 a better test than that referred to. For the treatment 

 of spasmodic cholic affecting fat animals, see the infor- 

 mation given under the next head, " Cholic,'' &c, 



THE CHOLIC, GRIPES, OR FRETS. 

 . The causes are the same as for Inflammation of the 

 Bowels, and differs from that owing to the previous 

 state of the animal attacked. He has not been so high 

 kept, and consequently not so irritable in any part of 

 his system ; but owing to stoppages, is soon troubled 

 with spasmodic affections of the intestines, iv/iich re- 

 ceives the name of gripes, or fret, or flatulent cholic, 

 by different persons. 



For the symptoms, you are referred to the table 

 given in page 28 of this book. 



Cure. — Too much care cannot be taken to ascer- 

 tain the precise nature and amount of the disease ; 

 for an error in this respect would endanger his life, 

 which is too often sacrificed by precipitancy and igno- 



