16 COLICS AND THEIR TREATMENT 



cally known as enteralgia, this is ''true colic." Other 

 forms, or the "false colics/' on the whole are less intri- 

 cate, and these will first occupy onr attention. Remember 

 fhat we are dealing essentially with differentiating facts, 

 all else being largely omitted. 



Diseases Manifesting Colicky Pains. 



Among the array of diseases or disturbances coming 

 more especially under the arbitrary classification of 

 ''false colic" may be cited laryngeal, pharyngeal, and 

 esophageal troubles, pleurisy, strangles, purpura hemor- 

 rhagica, influenza, tetanus, ruptured stomach or di- 

 aphragm, calculus, or obstruction of the urethra or 

 ureters, bladder disturbances, pregnancy, azoturia, pye- 

 mia, chemical or vegetable poison, hepatic ailments, peri- 

 tonitis and enteritis, hernia, anemia, etc. 



Many of the aforementioned diseases — strangles, 

 equine pleuro-pneumonia, pyemia, equine pernicious 

 anemia (swamp fever), influenza, purpura hemorrhagica, 

 tetanus and other infective maladies — manifest abdom- 

 inal pain usually of secondary character and comprise a 

 class which it seems unnecessary to discuss further be- 

 yond emphasizing that the pain is usually coincident with 

 an actual enteralgia, reasonably inferring that com.plica- 

 tions exist, often of serious nature and indicative of dis- 

 turbances having their origin in intestinal or circulatory 

 obstruction, intestinal catarrh or inflammation through 

 extension or intoxication, or again in nervous irritability 

 and exhaustion. 



Prognostications upon these complications or mani- 

 festations of pain must be largely determined by the 

 severity of the attack, the degree of impairment of the 



