gS gyi'OMACH AND INTESTINEa 



comes on only upon high feeding, or a disposition to plethora will produce the 

 same kin* of cough, and, in either case, it seems but an effort of nature to 

 relieve itself. In this case, the rapid repletion of blood drives it into the smaller 

 vessels that line the windpipe, &c. and there causes the titillation which after 

 two or three efforts ends in cough, and so on repeatedly. None but those 

 which are in some slight degree or other already afflicted with chronic cough 

 are ever so attacked, I apprehend; indeed I have frequently remarked how 

 excellent a test of " bad in the wind" was good feed, or a large feed, with 

 work upon it. In this case, the administering of nitre and resin will thin the 

 blood, and give immediate relief. 



Drench. 



4x n^' • > of each half an ounce, 

 Y ellow resin, ^ ' 



Oil of aniseed, 20 drops. 



The oil should be first well mixed with the resin, and the whole given in a 

 quart of water gruel. Recurrence of the same affection may be prevented in 

 some measure by giving the same in another form, which is in general 

 reckoned more convenient — namely, as a cough powder, substituting aniseeds, 

 1 ounce, for the oil, and pounding the whole together; mix with the corn. 



INFLAMMATION CF THE STOMACH AND INTESTINES. 



Whenever one of these organs is affected, with inflammation particularly, 

 the other soon feels the effects of the attack. This arises from the proximity 

 of the two; or the continuity of the digestive faculty, which is mostly carried 

 on in the intestines, as the reader of tolerable recollection well knows was so 

 described in Book I. page 44, &c. Corrosive poisons, indeed, carry on their 

 work of destruction upon the internal or villous coat of the stomach until the 

 ruin is complete; but, although horrid inflammation accompanies its ravages, 

 I would not class such a species of accident under any other head than "Poi- 

 son :" to call it by its symptom would be delusive. Neither is the inflamma- 

 tion caused by worms, proper to be taken into consideration here, th«)Ugh in 

 this case both organs are affected at the same time; but the bolt question in- 

 volves other considerations, besides the best means of destroying them, of pre- 

 venting the access of this irritating insect, or of alleviating the effects of its 

 })ite and adhesion to the villous coat, alike of stomach and intestine. 



With those exceptions, there is no greater difference in the causes, symp- 

 toms, or means of cure of inflammation in the stomach and intestines, than 

 exists between those of the great and the small gut. Inflammatory pain in 

 the smaller parts of the alimentary canal will ever be more acute than those 

 which attack the larger ones; thus, when the stomach is the seat of disorder, 

 the pains will be duller, the paroxysms less distinctly marked, and the pulso 

 but little altered; but, when by continuance it reaches the small gut at the 

 lower orifice of the stomach, then will the pain and anxiety of the animal in- 

 crease greatly, and the symptoms thereof, visible in his manner (to be de- 

 scribed shortly), will become more distinct, rapid, and vehement The pulse 

 nicreases in number, in sharpness of vibration, and irregularity. Such is the 

 tlifference also that is discernible between attacks u{)on the colon or great gut, 

 and on the smaller guts. But all this refers to the first attack ; for after a 

 while, if the means adopted are insufficient to che(;k its career, the ruin goes 

 on to affect the wliolc abdomen, and ttie animal dies in f xcrucianng tor- 

 menc5. 



