DISEASES AND TREATMENT OF THE HORSE. 99 



he g'ets a very ntiggtjrd look on his fAC«, as it in extreme m.gony. 



After a few hours he Is a pityinf^ aif^ht to see. If you sound his 



bowels at this stage there It not the slig'htest movement to be 



heard, only a jerking and trembling all through his insides. He 



begins to breathe heavy, and his ears and legs have a cold, clammy 



feeling. He keeps on in very great pain, lying down, getting up, 



and walking around his box, and, if seen to make water, it will be 



red and bloody looking, and if there is any passage from the bowels, 



it will be mostly slime. If he does not get relief in the course of 



eight or ten liours, mortification then sets in, and the animal 



becomes quiet and easy, but he still keeps sweating and breathing 



heavy, and in some cases will try to eat and once in a while he 



will be noticed to walk around his box. In this stage he does not 



lie down. The surface of his body, his ears, his nose, his lips and 



legs get colder and have a death-like feeling. If you take his 



pulse now, it will be up to 100 beats per minute, and so weak you 



can hardly feel it, showing that his heart is just fluttering, 



and that was all ; the haggard look on his face becomes more 



marked ; he will be noticed to strain a few times, as if trying to 



pass something, but nothing comes. He will keep on his feet as 



long as he can, but will finally stagger, fall and die. This disease 



generally runs a course of from 10 to 15 hours, but in some cases 



we have known them to live as long as two or three days, where 



there was not much of the bowels affected. 



Treatment. — This disease, if taken as soon as the animal is 



noticed sick, may be sometimes cured, but the treatment must be 



quick and careful, for, if the disease once gets a couple of hours 



the start, it is then a hopeless case. Give the following i 



Tlaotor* of LAodakaam 8 owtoea or t tabl— pooafnk. 



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Mix in a pint of luke warm water, and give as a drench. 

 Thia drench is to relieve the pain and try and check the inflam- 

 mation. This drench may be repeated every hour until the animal 

 ^eta relief. Apply lots of heat to the body in the form of large 

 woolen blankets, wrung out of hot Wftt«r and held up to the belly, 

 gnd h^jf pall fsf hot salt in a grain bag: *© ^^e back. In tvery cas^, 

 „fter you' are through losing the hot blankets, apply a mustard 

 jjlaster, consisting rf ; 



idaatArd k pound. 



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