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be given in alternation with Capsicum 3 , or with Nux Vomica 1, 

 or with Arsenicum 3. 



Diet. — Look closely to the diet of the patient. If the 

 season be favourable, a run at spring grass or a liberal allowance 

 of green clover may prove of signal benefit. Stewed rice some- 

 times acts beneficially in cases of this nature ; also, carrots and 

 cabbages. See Section VI., page 108. 



aOEGED STOMACH.— TYMPANY. 



ACUTE INDIGESTION. 



Cases of acute disease arising from the stomach being over- 

 loaded with food, or from animals eating food of an improper 

 kind, are occasionally brought to veterinary surgeons for treat- 

 ment. The subjects which sufier the most from this cause are 

 old horses, and horses which feed voraciously. 



Symptoms. — The disease generally commences suddenly. 

 The symptoms resemble those of colic, and in numerous cases 

 are doubtless mistaken for the latter. Gorged Stomach, how- 

 ever, is attended with pain of a more severe character. The 

 abdomen is also distended (in many cases enormously so) 

 with gas, and not unfrequently the stomach is ruptured in 

 consequence ; when the death of the patient is rendered 

 inevitable. 



In the more severe forms of the malady the pain increases in 

 intensity with great rapidity, and the violence of the animal 

 along with it ; he can scarcely be kept upon his feet for even a 

 few moments at a time ; he throws himself recklessly upon the 

 ground, and rolls and plunges sometimes without intermission 

 for twenty minutes at a time ; and if the violence of the animal 

 for a short period subsides, it does so more from the patient 

 being exhausted than from a cessation of the acute pain. 



