Diseases of the Horse. 21 



COLIC— SPASMODIC COLIC— CRAMPS. 



CAUSES: — Anything that will cause indigestion or 

 irritation of the intestinal canal, will produce colic. The 

 principal causes are: drinking cold water when over- 

 heated, or colder water than the horse has been in the habit 

 of drinking. Change of feed from oats to corn, sudden 

 changes in temperature from hot to cold, exposed to^ rain 

 or driving a horse into a pond of cold water. 



SYMPTOMS: — The horse appears uneasy, and all 

 at once the horse that a few moments before was well, ap- 

 parently, leaves his feed and looks around at his flank as 

 if pointing out the seat of pain, commences to paw the 

 ground, sometimes falling upon its knees, and almost 

 strikes its belly with one of the hind feet. As the spasms 

 continue and the pain becomes more intense, the horse 

 breaks out into a sweat, heaving at the flanks, tumbling, 

 rolling and becomes greatly excited. 



TREATMENT: — If the pain continues to increase, 

 and the animal is not relieved, inflammation of the bowels 

 may result, or the horse may die from pain or exhaustion. 

 Give the horse plenty of bedding, so there will be less 

 danger of his bruising or injuring himself. Give im- 

 mediately our 



REMEDY NO. 26 FOLLOWED BY, 

 REMEDY NO. 27 AS DIRECTED. 



Rub briskly the legs and abdomen, occasionally walk 

 the horse about, to excite the bowels to action. After 

 the pains have subsided, it is advisable to give a good 

 physic — one pint of linseed oil being preferable. If nec- 

 essary give injections of warm soap suds. 



As this disease is liable to attack your stock at a 



