470 ON COLIC. 



** beholding a goofe or a duck on the water 

 " fwimming." Markham prefcribes a glyfter 

 of hen*s dung, nitre, and ftrong vinegar ! and 

 the late great ftate phyfician, Citizen Marat, 

 who alfo was in the habits of prefcribing for 

 the body natural, and loved a radical cure to 

 his heart, being one day feverely griped, (as 

 Briflbt tells us) ran all over Paris, in fearch of 

 a furgeon, who would undertake the cutting 

 his guts open, in order to look for the colic ! 

 Unfortunately that confummate operatrix, 

 Charlotte Corday, had not arrived. 



I fufpeft authors may have run their divi- 

 lions upon this difeafe in horfes, fomewhat too 

 fine ; it may, however, be divided into the com- 

 mon FRET or GRIPES, the FLATULENT, the 

 RED or INFLAMMATORY, and the B1LIOU3 



COLIC; of the occafional exiltence of this lat- 

 ter, in an animal fo frequently fubjeft to biliary 

 oblfruftion, no doubt need be entertained. 



The primary caufe of a common fit of the 

 gripes in a horfe, is nine times out of ten an 

 accumulation of indurated excrement' in the 

 inteftines ; for independently of the folid ob- 

 ftruftion fo occafioned, the ufual proximate 

 caufes would feldom have power to work thofe 

 ferious effetls we witnefs ; thus in a horfe, the 

 colon of which was not previoufly infarfted and 

 plugged up, the effeft of a flight cold thrown 

 ppon the bowels, or the devouring a kw new 



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