tit VINDY COLIC. 



Symptoms of the Windy Colic. 



CHAP. V. 



THE WINDY, OR FLATULENT COLIC. 



The windy, or flatulent colic, is in general 

 produced by the horse eating greedily of some 

 succulent food : as fresh clover, different grasses, 

 new hay, or new corn, and sometimes from drink- 

 ing cold water. It may be occasioned by any 

 one of these things, which soon produces flatu- 

 lency, and great debility, from aeid and other 

 crudities engendering either in the stomach, or 

 some part of the intestines, and is indicated by 

 the following symptoms. 



' The horse often lies down, and suddenly rises 

 again with a spring; strikes his belly with his 

 hind feet, stamps with his fore feet, and refuses 

 every kind of food. When this disorder is vio- 

 lent, it throws his body into convulsive motions ; 



