36 VETERINARY 



Diseases of the Intestines. 



DISEASES of the Intestines may be divided 

 into two kinds, viz. 1st, Cholic or Gripes; 

 2d, Dic.i. ce'd or Loose nefs 5 and may proceec| 

 from diiierent causes. 



1st, Of the Cholic or Gripes, 



THE cholic, or spasm of the intestines, may 

 arise from violent exercise, or from the horse 

 being permitted to eat too much green herbage, or 

 from bad hay, new oats, &a ; or it may proceed 

 from strong purgatives administered when the 

 boweis are over-loaded with crude vegetable food. 

 This kind of cholic is most dangerous, as it fre- 

 quently, by causing violent inflammation, termi- 

 nates in gangrene ; it may likewise proceed from 

 costivenefs. ' 



But from whatever cause it arises, it is attended 

 with the following symptoms ; viz. violent pain, 

 and creat restletsnefs ; his extremities cold ; the 

 pulse rather quick, and respiration increased: he 

 frequently attempts to lie down, but rises up im- 

 mediately; his hind extremities are drawn under 

 h\m j he frequently strikes his belly with his hind 



