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pain and tranquillize the nervous system, give a dose, as occasion 

 may require, of tincture of Indian hemp (canabis sativus indicus), 

 one fluid drachm to a pint of warm water, two or three times a 

 day. Diluted tincture of arnica, one ounce of tincture to a pint 

 of water, has a good effect to lessen the pulse, and moderate 

 inflammation. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH AND BOWELS.— 



(G astro -enter it is.} 



This is a complicated disease, attended with considerable danger, 

 and requires some knowledge of pathology in order to detect it 

 when occurring in an animal destitute of the power of speech. 

 The disease, probably, first manifests itself in the stomach, and, as 

 it progresses, involves the inner membrane of the intestines, and 

 from thence shifts to various parts of the system. From the fol- 

 lowing remarks by D' Arboval, who is considered the best authority 

 on this subject, such an idea seems very plausible : " With other 

 phenomena, preceding these, becomes united, in both forms of the 

 disease, and in every case, more or less disorder of the functions 

 of other organs. Divers phlegmonous complications make their 

 appearance in other parts of the digestive apparatus and its de- 

 pendencies — in the mucous membrane of the air passages, in the 

 brain, in the urinary passages, in the organs of generation, and 

 even, at times, in the skin. The sur-excitation of the mucous 

 membrane of the mouth may be regarded as sympathetic, for it 

 increases or diminishes in the same ratio as the gastro-enteritic 

 disorder itself does. According as the attack is sudden or pro- 

 tracted, this membrane is dry or clammy ; the tongue rarely 

 preserves its natural complexion and humidity ; it has a more or 

 less bright-red aspect, particularly towards its point and border ; 

 its papilla? and mucous follicles are more or less developed ; its 

 surface, blanched, white, or yellowish, is covered with a blackish 

 epidermoid crust ; the organ acquires volume and firmness, and 

 'exhibits sometimes along its under surface phlyctiena, or else 

 ulcerations more or less deep and extensive. In opening horses 

 that have died, points of inflammation have been detected upon 

 the pharynx and oesophagus ; sometimes even aphthce are found 



