THE HORSE IN SICKNESS AND DISEASE 831 



powerful stimulant introduced into the stomach. However, 

 it is sufficiently common from the above causes, and every 

 case is attended with great danger, though unmarked by 

 any characteristic symptom. It cannot be easily dis- 

 tinguished in its severe stage from twist of the intestines, 

 stone in the bowels, etc. 



The mode of treating it has already been detailed under 

 Stomach Staggers. The symptoms from poison are extreme 

 distress and restlessness, a loathing of food ; for if anything 

 be given by the mouth it creates increased pain a long time 

 afterwards. The animal breaks out into cold sweats ; lies 

 down and quickly rises again, as in inflammation of the 

 bowels ; becomes early and greatly prostrated in strength ; 

 and has a pulse usually quick and much oppressed. There 

 may be purging, and generally is, though the opposite 

 state may also exist. The signs are also materially 

 shaped by the nature of the substance swallowed. 

 The following is advised where the symptoms are 

 doubtful, and what has been done to the animal cannot 

 be ascertained : 



Sulphuric ether .... 3 ounces. 



Tincture of opium .... 3 ounces. 



Carbonate of soda or magnesia . 4 ounces. 



Carbonate of ammonia ... 1 drachm. 



Cold gruel ..... 1 quart. 



CHEONIG INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH. 



This affection is, in our opinion, more common than is 

 suspected. It is set down as merely " indigestion," and a 

 consequence of a dyspeptic state of the gastric juice. This 

 is plausible, but not all the truth. The disorder is said to 

 be produced by rearing the animal on soft or sown land. 

 iTiflammation of the Stomach, in its chronic form, is fre- 

 quently first displayed at the period when the services of 

 the animal are esteemed most valuable, or between the fifth 

 and sixth years, long after the mode of rearing has ceased 

 to operate. The symptoms are various, and hardly ever 

 alike. The stomach may affect the nervous system; then 

 its complications become difficult to disentangle. The 

 affection is mostly declared by an irregularity of bowels and 

 a capriciousness of appetite. The animal starts off violently 



