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DISEASES OF ANIMALS. 



DISTINCTION BETWEEN COLIC AND INFLAM 

 M ATI ON. 



The following table will enable one to distinguish 

 between colic or gripes, and inflammation of the boivels : — 



Spasmodic, or Wind Colic. 



1. Pulse natural, though 

 sometimes a little lower. 

 In health, the pulsations are 

 thirty -six to forty per min- 

 ute ; being rather slower in 

 large, heavy, and in old 

 horses, than in young ones. 

 Exercise, animation, or 

 fright, increases the pulse. 



2. The horse lies down, 

 and rolls upon his back. 



3. The legs and ears 

 generally warm. 



4. Attacks are very sud- 

 den, and are never preceded, 

 and seldom accompanied by 

 any symptoms of fever. 



5. There are frequently 

 short intermissions. 



Inflammation of the Bowels. 



1. Pulse very quick and 

 small. Fever often in 

 creases the pulsations tl 

 double the healthy number 

 In violent fever, attended 

 with inflammation of the 

 bowels, the strokes some 

 times rise to one hundred a 

 minute, or more. 



2. He lies down, and 

 suddenly rises up again. 

 seldom rolling upon his back. 



3. The legs and ears 

 generally cold. 



4. Attacks are generally 

 gradual, and are commonly 

 preceded, and always ac- 

 companied, by symptoms of 

 fever. 



5. No intermissions can 

 be observed. 



COLIC. 



Causes are numerous. The principal are an over- 

 loaded stomach, particularly when water is given imme- 

 diately before or immediately after a large allowance of 

 food; violent exertion on a full stomach; a sudden 

 change of diet, particularly from hay to grass, and the 

 reverse ; the change to grass is still worse if the feed be 

 ^ery luxuriant, and the evil of a change from grass to 

 •lay, (which produces constipation,) is aggravated by 



