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back. In flatulent colic, the pulse is not much 

 affected, except, perhaps, a little quicker than 

 usual ; symptoms of fever rarely occur ; short in- 

 tervals of ease, and the pain not increased by pres- 

 sure ; extremities and ears commonly retain their 

 natural warmth ; also frequently rolls upon his 

 back. 



If the severe pain and other bad symptoms 

 gradually yield to the remedies employed, the 

 pulse becomes fuller and softer, the bowels acted 

 upon by the purgatives used, the heat of the body 

 diminished, and the extremities and ears gain 

 their natural warmth, a favourable termination 

 may be expected. On the contrary, if the pain 

 suddenly remits, the pulse quick and almost im- 

 perceptible, bowels not acted upon by purgatives, 

 or he voids bits of dung with a dark fetid liquor 

 partial sweats break out, the intestines are in a 

 gangrenous state, and death soon takes place. 



When we are persuaded that inflammation has 

 attacked the intestines, we must imrnediately re- 

 sort to the most efficacious means of cure; and I 

 am satisfied, from long experience, that no remedy 

 surpasses copious bleeding. 



If the horse is young, strong, and in good con- 

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