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discontinued. If the symptoms do not amend in three 

 hours and a half after the first drink, give a pint of linseed 

 oil, blended with a drachm of chloroform, and continue the 

 enemas. The calomel and opium is to be persevered in 

 throughout the disorder, till the horse either gets better and 

 the case terminates. After the attack has ended, the bowels 

 will be closed for some time, and they must be allowed to 

 remain in that state, rather than resort to mashes or to 

 physic, which at this time are too apt to start up undue 

 purgation. The diet should be spare. It should consist of 

 grasses, roots, boiled potatoes, good gruel, but nothing hard, 

 like oats, hay, or chaff, &c. The temperature of the stable 

 should also be moderate ; the same care should be bestowed 

 on equalizing the circulation as prescribed under pneumonia, 

 bv rubbing the extremities, proper clothing, and a loose 

 wTll-httered box ; and as it leaves, like inflammation of the 

 lungs, a hability to recurrence, let not the animal be worked 

 or exposed. The horse, after some time, may be as capable 

 of work as ever he was, if not put to it too early. 



DYSENTERY, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE MUCOUS SURFACE OF 

 THE INTESTINES. 



As the former affection consists of an inflammatory at- 

 tack on the middle coat of the intestines, this latter is 

 usually an affection of their internal surface ; having for its 

 cause irritations applied in various ways ; as by translations 

 of obstructed perspiration; the continued use of certain 

 aliments ; but more particularly the administration of hu- 

 proper purging medicines, either as to quantity or quality, 

 by which such irritation is brought on as ends in inflam- 

 mation. It is commonly accompanied with purging, 

 whereas the former is almost always associated with cos- 

 tiveness ; neither is the pain so acute in dysentery, con- 

 sequently the horse seldom expresses his uneasiness by 

 rolling or stamping ; the pulse is also quick and small, but 

 is seldom very hard, even from the beginning. However 

 uro-ent may be the symptoms, and whatever the pulse may 

 denote, no blood must be withdrawn in this disorder ; for it 

 is inflammation of the mucous membrane, and after all we 

 can do to support the horse, he will hardly have strength 

 to get through the attack. Stimulants should, however. 



