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CHAPTER III. 



DISEASES OF THE OilGANS OF DIGESTION. 



General Remarks on Diseases of the Digestive Organs, 

 Local Inflammation in and around the 3Iouth — Lampas — 



Vives — Barbs and Pai:)s — Tender and Bleeding Gums — 



Decayed Teeth — Tooth Cough, 

 Ind gestion and Dyspepsia, 

 Cribbing — Crib-b iting — Wind-sucking, 

 Colic — The Gripes, 



Tympany — Flatulent Colic — Tympanites — Swollen Belly, 

 Constipation — Costiveness. 

 Diarrhcea — Scouring, 

 Inflammation of the Bowels — Enteritis, 

 Dysentery — Bloody Flux — Colitis. 

 Congestion and Inflammation of the Liver — JSepatitis — ■ 



Jaundice — The Yellows, 

 Intestinal Worms, 

 The Bots, 



GENERAL REMARKS ON DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS. 



Most diseases of these organs arise from errors in feeding, 

 or from folly in ignorant persons pouring down irritating 

 medicines or administering injurious "condition powders.^' 

 In the horse the intestines generally suffer ; in the ox and 

 sheep it is more frequently the stomachs. 



The long tract of the intestines in the horse, to which we 

 have referred on a previous Jiage, and the important physio- 

 logical fact that he has but one stomach with which to do the 

 work for which four are assigned to the ox and sheep, render 

 him highly sensitive to morbid disturbances of these organs. 

 There is also a closer sympathy in him than in the others 



