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 weak and faint, as is Sometimes the case, give malf 

 mashes, and every morning one of the 



Fever Cordial Balls [page 14]. By this 

 means the care will be soon completed; and by 

 keeping him to this diet, and not exposing him too 

 early, he will avoid being so completely out of con- 

 dition as is usually the case after long colds.- 



CHOLIC SPASMODIC, called GRIPES or FRET,- 

 The cholics of horses arc of two kinds, extremely 

 different to each other in their nature, and totally 

 opposite in their treatment, and hence it requires the 

 utmost nicety of distinction between them ; but which 

 distinction being frequently neglected not only by in- 

 diftcrent persons, but by the generality of farriers, 

 eholic becomes a very fatal disease, and kills many 

 hundjed horses every year-^ 



The two cholics I hint at are, first, that which 

 forms our present su]>ject, and which is known ta 

 farriers and grooms by the names of Gripes and Fret, 

 It appears to consist of a spasniodic afiection or con- 

 striction of the intestines from the application of 

 some morbid matter or cause, producing, by its irri- 

 tating quality, those convulsive and painful twistings 

 we have reason to believe take place in them. The 

 ether species of eholic is that which is known to far- 

 riers by the term Red ChoIlc, either from the high 

 coloured urine made in it, or from the dark red ap- 

 pearance it gives the intestines. Red ClioUc consists 

 in a greater determination of blood to the intestines, 

 which constitutes their inflammation : hence red cho- 

 Kc is what veterinai'ians call inflammation of the 

 bowels*. 



