Differentiation of Various So- 

 Called Colics of the Soliped* 



BY RICHARD P. LYMAN, B. S., M. D. V. (hARV.) 



Dean of Veterinary Science, Michigan Agricultural College, 



East Lansing, Michigan 



It is not my purpose, nor is it considered essential 

 in an article of this character, to consider the classical 

 etiologic factors, general symptomatology, or routine 

 therapeutics. The omission of all preliminaries affords 

 an opportunity to turn at once to the subject, and allows 

 us to reason out first the 'Svhyfor" of the words, "so- 

 called colics," before launching into the real issue. 



SO-CALLED FALSE COLICS 



Probably no word is more commonly used by the laity, 

 and also (through force of circumstance and habit) 

 by the veterinarian, in referring to animal diseases, espe- 

 cially diseases of the horse, than the word "colic." It is 

 used to indicate a condition characterized by certain evi- 

 dences of pain that is by no means always correctly at- 

 tributed to a disturbance within any one group of organs ; 

 we find "colicky" manifestations associated with per- 

 verted respiratory, urinary, reproductive and digestive 

 functions, with disturbances of the muscular system and 

 also accompanying certain specific and general systemic 

 diseases. When purely of enteric origin, colic is classi- 



*Reprinted from the May, 1912, issue of the American Journal of Vet- 

 erinarv Medicine. 



