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cure of colic, and, perhaps, we ourselves are not free from blame 

 in this matter. Experience, and nothing else, has changed our 

 views, and we give them for the benefit of man and horse. 

 Experience is the only true guide." * " * "We have 

 frequently cured alarming cases with a little peppermint tea alone, 

 whereas had the subject been treated after the fashion of some, 

 the malady might, as it often does, have run on to a t\ital issue. 

 * * * Inflammation of the bowels is very apt to set in during 

 au attack of colic, from the use of spirits or oil of turpentine, and 

 other popular nostrums, and it is much to be deplored that so 

 noble an animal as the horse should be made to undergo such 

 torture as he is known to do from the administration of 

 turpentine." Dr. Dadd also quotes from another veterinary 

 'snrgeon, who, writing in the " Yeterinarium," vol. 25, page 

 432, says, that he was called to attend a horse with apparently 

 colicy pains : — "■ The village smith was summoned, who pre- 

 scribed a large dose of oil of turpentine, which was repeated, 

 but the symptoms increasing rather than abating, 1 was 

 sent for. But alas ! ere my arris'al the medicine had done its 

 w^ork, death having relieved the animal from farther maltreat- 

 ment. 



CALCULI, INTERSUSCEPTION, AND ENTANGLEMENT OF THE 



BOWELS. 



G94. — An attack of the colic, pure and simple, will most 

 hkely disappear with the treatment we have advised in from one 

 to three hours. If it does not something more serious may be 

 strongly suspected. There are several disorders of the bowels 

 in the horse, which exhibit all the symptoms of cohc, which are 

 quite incurable. A hard, polished, oval stone sometimes forms 

 in the intestines, and continues to increase in size, until it forms 

 a complete obstruction, and the horse dies in great pain. These 

 stones are sometimes so near the anus, that they can be reached 

 by the hand. "We have seen a veterinary surgeon break one of 

 these stones to pieces in the horse's rectum, with a hammer and 

 a long steel set. As might have been expected it proved only a 

 very cruel way of killing the horse. The intestines will some- 



