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the disease with some degree of certainty, for when in- 

 flammation has fairly set in, there is little, if any, remission 

 of pain ; whereas, in colic, the pains are of a spasmodic 

 character, so that the animal at times is qnite easy. The 

 pulse, in inflammation of the bowels, is small, iirm, and 

 quick increasing in beat as the disease increases in in- 

 tensity. 



" The next stage borders on delirium. The eye acquires 

 a wild, haggard, mmatural stare — the pupil dilates — his 

 heedless and dreadful throes render approach to him quite 

 jDcrilous. He is an object not only of compassion but of 

 apprehension, and seems fast hurrying to his end ; when, 

 all at once, in the midst of agonizing torments, he stands 

 quiet, as though every pain had left him, and he were go- 

 ing to recover. His breathing becomes tranquilized — 

 his pulse sunk beyond all perception — his body bedewed 

 with a cold, clammy sweat — ^he is in a tremor from head 

 to foot, and about the legs and ears has even a death-like 

 feel. The mouth feels deadly chill ; the lips drop pendu- 

 lous ; and the eye seems unconscious of objects. In fine^ 

 death, not recovery, is at hand; Mortification has seized 

 the inflamed bowel — pain can no longer be felt in that 

 which, a few minutes ago, was the seat of exquisite sui- 

 fering. He again becomes convulsed, and in a few more 

 struggles, less violent than the former, he expires. 



Treatment. — The treatment should be prompt and 

 energetic. The first and most powerful means of cure 

 will be bleeding. From six to eight quarts of blood 

 should be abstracted as soon as possible ; and the bleed- 

 ing repeated, if the pain is not relieved and the pulse has 

 not become rounder and fuller. Weakiness is the conse- 

 quence of violent inflammation of these parts ; and if that 

 iniiammation is subdued by the loss of blood, the weakness 

 will disappear. The bleeding should be effected on the 

 first appearance of the disease. 



A strong solution of aloes should immediately follow 

 the bleeding, but guarded by opium. This should be 

 quickly folio A\'ed by back-raking, and injections consisting 

 of warm water, or very thin gruel, in which Epsom salts 



