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nemia. (See Dropsy.) If pus be in the blood, it is then 

 called pyemia. (See Glanders.) 



Boils. — (See Saddle or Harness Galls.) 



Bots. — (See Worms.) 



Bowels, Disease of. — (See Costiveness, Diarrhoea, and 

 Dysentery.) 



1. Inflammation of the Bowels. — Symptoms. Acute 

 pain in the belly, and continuous, getting no intervals of 

 rest from the pain. Rolling, pawing, and shifting about, 

 sweating, and breathing fast, with great fever, exaltation, 

 and excitement. A fearful disease. Happily not so fre- 

 quent as formerly. 



Can only be mistaken for colic, (which see.) In colic 

 there are times of ease from pain, but never in this disease. 



Causes. Exposure to cold, drinking cold water in great 

 quantities when hot, calculi, or hair balls in the bowels, 

 costiveness, diarrhoea, and as a sequel to colic, lead and 

 other poisons, (which see.) 



Treatment. The first thing to be done is to lessen or de- 

 stroy pain. Give a large dose of the tincture of aconite 

 root, say thirty drops, to be repeated in two hours. Apply 

 blankets wrung out of boiling water to the belly, and renew 

 them in about twenty minutes. 



Give injections of warm not hot water, soap, and a hand- 

 ful of table salt every half hour. Continue the treatment 

 while there is enough strength remaining. 



Bleeding will only insure and hasten death, and purga- 

 tives are too slow to act — the horse is either dead, or will 

 be before any response can be had from them. 



Brain Diseases. — The brain and its coverings, or mem- 

 branes, are subject to inflammations of every degree. (See 

 Apoplexy and Staggers.) 

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