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DYSENTERY. 



DEFORMITIES IN YOUNG COLTS, are usually caused by an insuf- 

 ficient nourishment ; but if the colt is taught to suck milk from a bottle or 

 something else, so as to become well nourished, deformities of the limbs will 

 usually be removed. 



DIARRHOEA. — When this disease is not attended with pain, griping or 

 pawing, as in colic, it will generally require no treatment, but if it con- 

 tinues, and the horse shows signs of pain oi colic, there is reason for the 

 belief that there is some irritating poison retained in the bowels Avhicli does 

 not pass away in the excrement, (See Dysentery.) 



Treatment. — Treatment that will allay pain is demanded. 



Give twenty drops of tincture of aconite root in a little water, and 

 follow with a powder as given below, every three hours, until the horse is 

 better. Take prepared chalk, 5 drachms ; catechu, pulverized, 1 drachm ; 

 pulverized opium, 10 grains; mix, and give as stated above. Give plenty of 

 good cold water to drink. 



When the diarrhoea is better, give bran mash for a few days, and add a 

 little ground flaxseed if convenient. 



DYSENTERY, ACUTE.— This disease in the horse is very violent, 

 because the length and size of the intestines of the horse render any disease 

 within them a very serious affair. 



Cause. — Acute dysentery is caused by taking some acrid substance into 

 the stomach, such as croton oil with aloes, which produce an inflam- 

 matory purgation ; or from the injudicious use of various poisons, such as 

 tartar emetic, corrosive sublimate, blue vitriol, arsenic, etc. , etc. Nearly all 

 of these substances will be eaten readily if mixed with the grain, therefore 

 any person not knowing the 

 proper quantities of such poi- 

 sons to give, should not venture 

 to use them. 



Symptoms are obscure at 

 the commencement. As in 

 nearly all disorders of the 

 intestines, so in this, there is 

 pain in the abdomen. The 

 pain may be slight at first or 

 it may be so violent as to be 

 confounded with the pangs 

 of colic ; the thirst is excessive ; 

 the stench offensive. 



The position of the body, as 

 shown in the engraving, is 

 expressive of abdominal pain. 



SUFFEKI]SG FROM THE EFFECTS OF A 

 POWERFUL POISON. 



