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of calomel may be shaken upon the tongue, and the drench 

 first-named persevered in immediately afterwards. If still 

 no abatement of the pain be observed, and the general 

 symptoms and appearance indicate nothing but colic, at the 

 expiration of another term repeat the physic last advised, 

 and place sheepskins along the back. 



By this time the pain, if it has throughout the period 

 been acute, must have changed the symptoms into those of 

 enteritis ; and we accordingly proceed as in that disorder, 

 only every hour not forgetting to give the ether and the 

 laudanum, together with the other medicines pointed out 

 as fit for inflammation of the bowels. 



Other things have also to be attended to. In the first 

 place when the horse is attacked, he ought as quickly as 

 possible to be got into a loose box, well littered down, and 

 the sides of it amply guarded by trusses of straw placed 

 upright against the walls. The patient is then to be back- 

 raked ; and after the medicine has been administered, a 

 simple enema of soap and water is to be thrown up. All 

 exercise, friction, pepper, and spice, is to be avoided, be- 

 cause we can never reckon accurately as to what colic is 

 going to become ; by the by, we knew a case in Mr. Gow- 

 ing's practice, in which a prolonged fit was cut short by 

 the administration of a pint of turpentine as a clyster. 



COLIC IN HORNED CATTLE. 



This complaint occurs in cattle, but on account of the 

 intestines of those animals being bound down by the peri- 

 toneum, is of no consequence ; as is aptly illustrated by a 

 question put by the grinder, when preparing the pupils of 

 the Royal Veterinary College for their examination. 



Q. What would you do if you were called to an ox 

 having the colic ? 



A. Make haste, lest the animal should get well before I 

 reached the place. 



CHRONIC INDIGESTION. 



Horses are subject to dyspepsia, or loss of appetite, either 

 from some morbid change in the stomach, being induced by 

 some disease in its secretions, or some extraneous matter. 

 We have had many occasions to advert to the sympathy 



