48 COLICS AND THEIR TREATMENT 



heavy and would choke up any single tube used. It will 

 in some cases choke up a double tube, but there is this 

 advantage, water is forced into this mass continually, 

 thinning it up all the while, and not only that, enough 

 air is being forced into the stomach to let it have an air 

 space, without which siphoning is not successful. I will 

 admit that in pumping water into the stomach increased 

 pressure, to a greater or less extent is produced, just 

 how much I do not know, but from actual experience I 

 do know that not enough can be caused to do a good job 

 of lavage with the single tube. 



In this class of colic should your horse not ease off 

 in forty-five minutes, use the tube again. At this time 

 the gas will practically all come away and you do not 

 run any risk of causing any trouble from the puncture, 

 from dirt, etc., as when using the trocar. 



It is not often that cases such as this will need any 

 medicine, yet I think that an antiseptic, such as eucam- 

 phine eucalyptolin or sulphocarbolates compound is ben- 

 eficial, and sometimes strychnine as a stimulant aids ma- 

 terially; yet there are few that really need them. 



The case described in the foregoing is one of many 

 of its kind that occur here in Topeka, and I am sure that 

 my success with them is entirely due to the persistent 

 use of the stomach tube ; for ten years ago and longer, I 

 can remember of many good horses being hauled out to 

 the desiccating plant from attacks of this type. 



I would like to impress upon the minds of all, that 

 in all cases like the foregoing, if it is possible to get 

 them to the hospital where you can use city water pres- 

 sure for the gastric lavage, to do so. Better results will 



