ON COLIC* 48X 



colic. This dlfeafe in horfes is generally of a 

 compound nature, and the fpecies To decidedly 

 inflammatory as he pretends, rarely exifts in this 

 country. With the nofological arrangement of 

 the profound and experienced Cullen before 

 him, it is pity but that Mr. Blaine had alfo 

 paid fome attention to the excellent advice 

 given in the Preface — not to embarrafs the hifto- 

 ry of a difeafe by an unneceflary detail of fymp- 

 toms that are " adventitious and accidental," 

 but to confine himfelf to fuch as are " common 

 '' and infeparable." To teach gravely, that in 

 red colic " the horfe exprefles great uneafineft, 

 lays down and gets up again, flrikes his belly, 

 but feldovi rolls, but that in fpafm.odic colic 

 he frequently rolls ;"' and " be careful to 

 diftinguifh it (red colic) from gripes," will 

 not ferve to imprefs a gravity appropriate to 

 the occafion, upon the countenance of the prac- 

 tical reader. Small indeed muft be the inflam- 

 mation which the attendant cannot palpably 

 deted, and flrange mud be that colic which is 

 di(lin6l from gripes ! I move, that henceforth 

 fuch equivocal difeafe do obtain the name of the 

 Blainean colic. 



Before we difmifs this fubje6l, it mufl; not be 

 forgotten, that the flatulent or fpafmodic colic 

 is, by far, the mofl; frequent with horfes, and, in 

 this fpecies it is, that farriers do fo much mif- 

 chief with their inflammatory fpecifics, fome- 

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