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like sound is heard. As the distention increases, 

 the horse looks around at its flanks, lies down, rolls, 

 gets up and down again; there is no easy spell as 

 in spasmodic colic. If not relieved, the distention 

 becomes so great that it presses against the lungs, 

 and causes great difficulty in breathing, and the 

 animal may die of suffocation in a few minutes, or 

 from rupture of the gut. Treatment: The best 

 remedy is aromatic spirits of ammonia, in two- 

 ounce doses in a pint of cold water, and repeated in 

 half an hour. Clean out the bowels by injections 

 of soap and water, then inject two ounces of spirits 

 of turpentine mixed in half a pint of linseed or any 

 other oil. If oil is not obtainable, mix the turpen- 

 tine in a pint of milk. Repeat the injection of tur- 

 pentine and oil every twenty minutes until the ani- 

 mal is relieved. If ammonia is not on hand, give 

 baking soda, two to three tablespoonfuls, and 

 ground ginger, two tablespoonfuls, in a quart of 

 hot water. From one-half pint to one pint of whis- 

 key can be given in half a pint of hot water. Tinc- 

 ture of asafetida in two-ounce doses in half a pint 

 of water is useful Also injections of from two to 

 four ounces tincture of asafetida mixed in milk are 

 very good. Also give a quart of raw linseed oil 

 as a physic. In severe cases the bowel should be 

 punctured in the most prominent part. Plate 2. 

 The instrument is a small trocar and canula. The 

 skin is cut with a knife, then the trocar and canula 

 are pushed into the bowel in a direction inward and 

 downward. The trocar is pulled out and the gas 

 will escape through the canula. There is little 



