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ment and immovableness of the matters they contain, 

 or from entanglement of the intestines, or intus-sus- 

 ception — must in the end occasion inflammation. 

 Over-fatigue, and consequent excessive irritation in 

 the bowels, will bring it on. 



Symptoms. — There is some analogy between the 

 symptom's of this disease and colic ; there is, however, 

 one marked feajure of the case which enables us to 

 diagnose the disease with some degree of certainty, 

 for when inflamation has fairly set in there is little, if 

 any, remission of pain ; whereas, in colic, the pains 

 are of a spasmodic character, so that the animal at 

 times is quite easy. The pulse, in inflammation of 

 the bowels, is small, firm, and quick, increasing in 

 beat as the disease increases in intensity, 



"The next stage borders on delirium. The eye 

 acquires a wild, haggard, unnatural stare — ^the pupil 

 dilates — his heedless and dreadful throes render 

 approach to him quite perilous. He is an object not 

 only of compassion but of apprehension, and seems 

 fast hurrying to his end; when, all at once, in the 



