DIAGNOSIS. 31 



however, be distinctly understood that homoeopathic practi- 

 tioners are alone able to apply this double-barrelled system for the 

 simple reason that in such cases allopathists rely solely upon 

 local and surgical treatment and indeed know nothing of the 

 remedies honioeopathists use for arresting the formation of pus in 

 the body. 



To proceed with your inquiry, it should be the aim to discover 

 if the horse has any pain, and, if so, where. When the pain is 

 located in some part of the abdomen (or belly), the horse more 

 frequently than not lies down, rolls, all of a sudden jumps up and 

 turns his head to one or other side, and, perhaps, if very acute, 

 will snap at or try to bite the place where the pain is most severe; 

 these are the methods the horse has of telling where the pain is 

 situated, and, of course, it points to some portion of the intestinal 

 tract (or gutj, or to some organ, as kidneys, liver, spleen, etc., 

 located in the abdomen and among the intestines, or it may be 

 to the presence of a calculus (or .stone) in the intestines; having 

 this guide you will then be in a position to find out from other 

 symptoms what has to be contended with and how to proceed. 



There is one practice very common amongst veterinary surgeons, 

 as well as stableman, in cas^s that so frequently occur among 

 draught horses which the author, from practical experience, 

 strongly condemns, namely, the custom of keeping a horse con- 

 tinually on the move when suffering from any pain that naturally 

 induces him to roll. ''Keep him on his legs^"' the man says: ''don't 

 Jet hint era doivn ! " The author condemns the practice as absolute 

 nonsense on the one hand and gross cruelty on the other, for by 

 preventing a horse from rolling, you frustrate the only thing he 

 can do to afford himself some measure of relief; by one's own 

 experience when suffering from the "belly-ache^'" it is quite certain 

 that relief does follow a good roll, and if in the man, why not in 

 the horse ? 



The advocate of the ' ' kcehinr on the leo^s ' ' principle will tell you 

 that to allow a horse to roll involves the risk of a twisted gut; but 

 where is the proof? If a horse that afterwards died proved to 

 have a twisted gut, it is most probable that the twisted gut was 

 the cause of the pain and not the result of a roll while the pain 

 was on; the "twist" more than likely having been made when 

 the horse was called upon for some extra exertion in pulling a 



