414 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



How to know It. — There is a tendency to wind colic, the food not 

 being digested rapidly enough, decomposition sets in and leads to flatu- 

 lence. There is usually a loss of appetite, and sometimes symptoms of 

 nausea, such as turning up the nose. 



CHRONIC GASTRITIS. 



A horse quenching the excessive thirst of chronic gastritis. 



What to do. — Give a complete change of food ; if corn and oats have 

 been fed, change to bran, carrots and boiled barley, and if in season, give 

 green food. Give raw linseed oil in half pint doses once a day till the 

 bowels are quite soft, and feed a little oil-cake meal, a pint once a day. 

 If wind accumulates after eating, give the following as a drench : 



No. 47. 1 Teaspoonfiil bicarbonate of soda, 



1 Ounce excract of ginger, 

 yi Pint water, 



Mix and give as one dose. 



If thirst is excessive, give half an ounce of chlorate in the water, well 

 dissolved, twice a day. This excessive thirst is often seen as a symptom 

 of the disease when it has become chronic. 



VIII. Stomach Staggers. 



This is a sleepy, dumpish, stupid condition resulting from engorgement, 

 and through the nerves the impression is carried to the brain, and stupor 

 is the effect. 



Causes. — It frequently happens after over-eating on clover, or the 

 horse gets into the garden and fills up on cab})ages or roots of any kind. 



How to know it. — The horse is usually found standing in a stupid man- 

 ner as though asleep, perfectly quiet, and perhaps with his mouth full of 

 food ; he is oblivious to all around ; place one foot across the other, and 

 he will leave it so ; prick him and he may wake up for an instant, but 

 subsides again as quickly. 



