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It may not be improper here to add that some young 

 horses are subject to coughs when cutting their teeth, and 

 their eyes are also atfected from the same cause. In these 

 cases always bleed, and if the cough be obstinate, repeat it, 

 and give warm mashes, which are often suiiicient alone to 

 remove the complaint. When young horses have a cough 

 that is caused by worms, as is often the case, such medi- 

 cines must be given as are proper to destroy those vermin. 

 [See Worms.] 



The Colic, or Gripes. 



The Colic proceeds from various causes ; therefore the 

 method of cure varies ; for otherwise the medicines intended 

 to cure it may increase it, and perhaps render it fatal. We 

 shall, therefore, divide this disorder into three different spe- 

 cies, and endeavor to give such plain directions for managing 

 each, as can not fail to prove very beneficial. The three 

 species are these :— 1. The Flatulent, or Windy Colic ; 



2. Bilious, or Inflammatory Colic ; 



3. The Dry Gripes. 



The Flatulent, or Windy Colic. 



Symptoms. — The horse is very restless, lying down and 

 starting up again. He strikes his belly with his hind feet, 

 stamps with his fore feet, and refnses his meat. When the 

 pain is violent, he has convulsive twitches ; his eyes are 

 turned up. and his limbs stretched out, as if dying ; and his 

 ears and feet alternately cold ; he falls into profuse sweats, 

 and then into cold damps ; often tries to stale, and turns his 

 head l\-equently to his flanks ; he then falls down, rolls about. 

 and often turns on his back. This last symptom proceeds 

 from a stoppage of urine, which generally attends this spe- 

 cies of colic, and may be increased by a load of dung press- 

 ing on the neck of the bladder. 



Causes. — This disease often proceeds from catching cold 

 by drinking cold water when hot, and the perspirable mat- 

 ter is by that means thrown upon the bowels, which causes 

 them to distend violently, and sometimes brings on an inflam- 

 mation in the small intestines, when the body begins to swell, 

 and the cure is despaired of 



Cube. — The first thing to be done is to empty the straight 

 gut with a small hand dipped in oil. This frequently gives 

 room for the wind, before confined in the bowels, to discharge 

 itself; and, by taking off the weight that pressed upon the 

 neck of the bladder, the suppression of urine is removed, 



