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tares, clover, &c., are very apt to have it ; and, like- 

 wife, after having long faftcd, when their cagernefs 

 induces them to eat voracioufly. 



Cold, applied in any way, likewife, is a frequent 

 caufe of cholic ; but cold water drank when a horfe 

 is warm is the moft frequent caufe of all. 



The principal point is to diftinguifli thefe two kinds 

 of choHc from each other, which an attention to the 

 following circumftances will generally render not 

 difficult. When a horfe is fuddenly feized with a 

 violent pain, kicking his belly with his hind foot; 

 laying down, and fuddenly getting up again, and when 

 down, rolling on his back; his pulfe being but little 

 affeded; breaking out in cold fweats, but the legs 

 and ears not much altered in their general warmth ; 

 the diftrefs very great, and the pain having fudden 

 remiffions ;-~when all thefe fymptoms appear, a 

 horfe may be fafely concluded to be labouring under 

 the gripes. 



But when a horfe is more flowly feized, and his 

 pain, though violent, is fixed and conftant, not having 

 intervals of eafe ; when he rolls, he does not ufually 

 turn on his back ; the pulfe likewife, and the beating 

 of the heart, not being eafily felt, but very ob- 

 fcure; and the legs and ears cold, with a frequent 

 painful ftaling of a red coloured urine, and appearance 

 of fever, accompanied with coftivenefs;-— when thefe 

 appearances take place, the horfe may be faid to 

 have red cholic, or inflammation of the bowels. 



