DISEASES AND INJURIES 



symptoms reappear, and at each recurrence they may in- 

 crease in intensity, and attempts may be made to stale, while 

 the animal may perspire freely and manifest anxiety. In 

 flatulent colic the symptoms are analogous to those in 

 spasmodic colic, the chief difference being that in the former 

 there is distension of the belly, and the breathing is therefore 

 more interfered with ; the horse also lies down more carefully 

 and does not roll so much. 



Treatment. No time should be lost in treating cases of 

 colic, and the relief of pain is one of the first objects to be 

 obtained. Six ounces of whisky should be given in a quart 

 of tepid water, and if two ounces of laudanum can be added 

 to this so much the better. The belly should also be well 

 rubbed with straw wisps. If there is constipation a dose of 

 physic ought to be given ; and when there is distension of the 

 abdomen, after the stimulant just mentioned an ounce of oil 

 of turpentine in a pint of linseed oil ought to be administered. 

 The alcohol and laudanum may be repeated in three or four 

 hours if the symptoms do not abate. An enema of soap and 

 water every two hours is very serviceable in obstinate cases ; 

 and when the attack is very acute, blankets wrung out of very 

 hot water and applied to the abdomen often act very bene- 

 ficially. 



Inflammation of the Bowels. 



Like colic, which it often succeeds, inflammation of the 

 bowels arises from many causes. 



Symptoms. These are not unlike those of colic, except that 

 there is no intermission in the pain, which is much more 

 severe, and the breathing and pulse are quickened through- 

 out ; the pain is also increased by pressure on the abdomen. 

 The body is covered by profuse perspiration, and the expres- 

 sion is haggard and distressed. In this disease no alcohol 

 should be given, nor yet laudanum, but, instead, powdered 

 opium in two or three-drachm doses, rubbed up in flour 

 gruel, every two or three hours ; to this may be added twenty 



