FLATULENT OR WIND COLIC. 



FLATULENT OE WIND COLIC. 



This is an entirely different disease from the 

 Spasmodic Colic. It often originates with some- 

 thing that the horse has eaten and then drink- 

 ing large quantities of water, by which the food 

 becomes fermented and creates a gastric gas, 

 which enlarges to a greater or less extent, some- 

 times to twenty or thirty times the bulk of the 

 food. It generally takes place in the stomach, 

 but at times in the small or large intestines. 



Symptoms. 



The horse suddenly slacks his pace, perhaps 

 lays or falls down as if he w^ere shot. In the 

 stable he paws the floor with his lore feet, lays 

 down and rolls, starts up instantly and throws 

 himself down again with greater violence, looks 

 wistfully at his flanks, and makes many fruit- 

 less efforts to void his urine. Here the symp- 

 toms are similar to other colics, but the true 

 character of the disease soon develops itself. — 



