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ears, in colic are not often much affected, and they never 

 remain intensely cold for a considerable period, as in ente- 

 ritis ; but the coat stares, and the horse breaks out fre- 

 quently into cold sweats. Sometimes he is seen to at- 

 tempt to stale without effect, at others he stales frequently, 

 with momentary relief. In colic, also, relief is obtained 

 by friction and motion, but both aggravate the distress in 

 enteritis. 



Treatment. — Having reason to believe that the patient is 

 labouring under simple spasm of the intestines, unmixed 

 with inflammatory tendency or symptomatic irritation from 

 inversion, involution, invagination, or introsusception of 

 the intestinal track ; proceed at once to administer such 

 one or more of the numberless antispasmodic remedies as 

 custom and experience have warranted. Numerous as they 

 are, there is not one that has not its advocate ; and perhaps 

 not one that does not deserve to be commended, so simple 

 are the means sometimes required ; and so much is the 

 constitution prone, in some cases, to assist itself or our 

 efforts. While, at the same time, other cases occur fre- 

 quently obstinate and sufficiently fatal to require all our 

 energies and all our discrimination in the choice of our 

 remedies. Upon an animal being seized with spasmodic 

 colic, immediately prepare and administer the following : — 



Sulphuric ether one ounce. 



Laudanum one ounce. 



Cold water a pint. 



If this has no eflfect, repeat the drink in twenty minutes. 

 If the second dose has no effect, give a third at the expira- 

 tion of an hour ; but with the third drench administer the 

 ether and opium in the quantities named, along with six 

 ounces of solution of aloes, and only three quarters of a 

 pint of water. Should this have no effect, try the draught 

 again at the expiration of forty minutes ; and if no result 

 be obtained by all this medicine, mischief behind the out- 

 ward symptoms may be anticipated. 



Copious clysters having been thrown up previously, and 

 the rectum emptied, the ammoniacal blister may now 

 be applied ; the liquor ammonia being mingled with six 

 times its amount of water, and carefully watched (see En- 

 teritis) . Then, at the expiration of another hour, a drachm 



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