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ounces), carbonate of soda (four drachms), and Glauber or 

 Epsom salts (eight ounces), in gruel. The following is 

 another form of aperient, which may be useful : Barbadoes 

 aloes (six drachms), common salt (six ounces), ginger (two 

 drachms), water (one quart), tincture of opium (two or three 

 fluid drachms). If this aperient be used, the anodyne draught 

 need not be given ; but in severe cases we should prefer 

 relieving the pain as soon as possible. For this purpose we 

 must trust to bleeding and opium, followed up by aperients 

 and injections. 



Enteritis must be carefully distinguished from colic, 

 whether flatulent or spasmodic ; for though the latter may 

 end in inflammation, the pain in the first instance results 

 from another cause. Though colic can scarcely be classed 

 among inflammatory diseases, yet it will be useful to notice 

 it in the present place, in order that its symptoms may be 

 compared immediately with those of enteritis. 



COLIC, OE FEET. 



We will first notice that variety to which the name of flat 

 ulent colic is given. 



Flatulent colic arises from the distension of the alimentary 

 canal with gas, owing to the fermentation of the food. The 

 abdomen swells ; the animal moans with pain ; it is extremely 

 restless, continually getting up and lying down, and ever and 

 anon striking at the belly with the hind feet, or with the horns. 

 Gas is expelled at intervals both from the mouth and bowels ; 

 perhaps the animal appears for a while relieved, but the pain 

 again commences ; often there is a rumbling noise, caused by 

 the passing of the gas from one part of the bowels to another, 

 or by the peristaltic action altering the position of inflated 

 portions. There is no violent shivering succeeded by symp- 

 toms of burning fever, though the pain may quicken the 

 pulse ; there is no prostration of strength ; and during the 

 remission of pain the animal moves freely. The most effec- 

 tual remedy for this disease consists in the chloride of lime, 

 of which two drachms may be mixed with a quart of warm 

 water, two drachms of powdered ginger, and twenty drops of 

 essence of peppermint. While the aromatics are grateful 

 stimulants to the bowels, the chloride of lime unites with the 

 extricated hydrogen gas, and causes the greater portion of it 

 to disappear. The beast should be walked about, but not 

 violently driven, lest rupture or entanglement of the intes- 



