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head frequently to the side; trembhng and shaking of the muscles 

 of the neck and limbs; partial sweating, particularly about the 

 neck; extra secretion of saliva which escapes from the mouth in 

 abundance, pulse hard, wiry and frequent; the expression of the 

 countenance very haggard; horse rarely attempts to lie down as in 

 colic, indeed, seems afraid to do so; the matter of first importance 

 under such circumstances is to restore to the stomach, which has 

 lost all nervous and muscular energy, — hence the reason the food 

 has become impacted — its healthy tone; through being called upon 

 to do too much at once, the coats of the organ are wearied out, they 

 refuse to respond to the nervous stimulus; the pyloric orifice 

 which opens into the small intestines is closed, the food that 

 ought to pass on for further digestion is retained and the viscus is 

 now more than replete with alimentary material; what is to be 

 done? ordinary practice would suggest an aloetic purge, but what 

 is the use of that? Aloes act upon the intestines almost exclusively; 

 we have to deal with the stomach which is already vSo full that 

 nothing will pass out of it; therefore, what good will aloes do; 

 absolutely none! 



What is required is a remedy that will give tone and impart 

 renewed vigour to the muscular wall ot the stomach, so that the 

 pyloric orifice will open and the contents of the organ be passed on 

 after saturation with gastric juice, into the intestines, and there is 

 no drug better calculated or more likely to effect this than Nux 

 vomica ix, of which ten drops in half a wineglassful of water 

 should be given, and the dose repeated every half hour until 

 relief is obtained. 



In those cases where the gastritis is the primary disease and 

 presents itself in the acute form, the symptoms are much like those 

 already enumerated, and the question at once arises how are the 

 two forms to be recognized and distinguished; it is somewhat 

 difficult but the careful horseman ought to know whether the 

 animal has had an opportunity of over-filling the stomach with 

 either digestible or indigestible material; apart from that, the 

 symptoms also include, with these already suggested some soreness 

 of the throat, a swollen and an infiltrated condition of the eyelids; 

 the animal may also be observed licking the walls of the box, and 

 grinding his teeth together; the point of the tongue is red but the 



