9^ TREATMENT. 



Colic Drench.— l^o. L 



Epsom Salts, 4 or 5 ounces, 

 Castile soap, sliced, 2 ounces. 

 Dissolve tnese in a pint of warm ale, and add 



Oil of juniper, 2 drachms, 

 Venice turpentine, 2 ounces. 



Mix well together, and give it warm ; repeating the same in four or five h jurs^ 

 and if the symptoms do not visibly abate, repeat once more. Tincture of 

 opium is sometimes substituted for the turpentine to the amountof 4 drachms; 

 but the drench is thereby rendered exceedingly nauseous, and should be given 

 deliberately. Opium is, moreover, least proper when a tendency to costive- 

 ness is discovered to exist. 



Colic Drench. — No. 2. 



Tincture of opium, 2 drachms, 

 Oil of juniper, 2 drachms. 

 Spirit of nitrous ether, 1 ounce, 

 Tincture of benzoin, 4 drachms, 

 Aromatic spirit of ammonia, 3 drachms. 



Mix together, and preserve the same in a bottle, and give in a pint of warm 

 peppermint water. Repeat in three or four hours. 



When the case is not very alarming, a neater manner of giving opium, in 

 the form of a ball, is reconmiended : — 



Sedative Ball. 



Asafoetida, 4 drachms. 

 Opium, 4 drachms. 



Make into four balls with liquorice powder and syrup, and give one every 

 two hours. The balls may be given along with the oily laxative at page 91; 

 immediately preceding it, or before the laxative has operated. These balls 

 are very serviceable to travellers on their journeys, and may be given to horses 

 that are liable to contract spasmodic colic, which is the case with heavy, fleshy 

 draught cattle, with post horses and the like. 



Colic is not often fatal, unless it terminate in inflammation; whilst it 

 should be kept in mind, that colic always ends in inflammation if not removed 

 in time. A day, or at most two, may pass away without danger and without 

 relief, in ordinary attacks of spasmodic colic j and where a looseness takes 

 place, a short time longer of neglectful carelessness might not terminate the 

 life of the animal; but, when inflammation commences, a shaking or undu- 

 lation of the tail is observable, with evident shivering of the whole frame. 

 The danger is then great ; especially when each fit of shivering is not suc- 

 ceeded by perspiration. 



If the costiveness is not well removed when those symptoms, with cold cars 

 and legs, come on, let the belly be fomented with warm water by means 

 of woolen cloths steeped therein. A horse rug may be used to advantage 

 Tn this way by two men, one standing on each side the hor'.s and foment- 

 ing the belly by bringing it nearly together across the back and supplying 

 ivith warm water. After half an hour's application, or more, let the coat 

 be well rubbed with dry cloths, and the animal wrapped in bo<ly clothing 



