DISEASES AND TREATMENT OF THE HORSE. 107 



PROTRUSION OF THE RECTUM OR BACK BOWEL. 

 This is often met with and is a miserable looking sight, 

 especially if it is left out long and it becomes swollen. 



Causes. — From a horse jumping a fence and getting caught 

 and lying on his belly half over the fence ; or in cases where 

 the animal gets very much bloated, as in wind colic or acute m- 

 digestion, and the bowels get pressed out. It has been seen in 

 cases of diarrhoea, and one great cause of this is constipation of 

 the bowels, where the animal strains to pass manure and, in so 

 doing, turns the rectum out. It is turned out sometimes when 

 the mare is foaling, and sometimes in castrating an old stallion, 

 where he forces very much. 



Symptoms. — You will see from three or four inches, and, in 

 some cases, two feet of the bowel. 



Treatment. — Wash the bowel well with luke warm wacer, and 

 then place a twitch on the horse's nose and have one of his front 

 legs f\e\d up so he cannot kick ; have the tail held out of the road, 

 then take sweet oil and oil the bowel all over ; commence return- 

 ing the bowel at the anus, as you have to turn the bowel inside 

 out ; shove the parts well back in with the hand and arm, and 

 have someone to hold his tail down tight for an hour or so until 

 he quits forcing, after the bowel is replaced. It is also well to 

 have his hind end raised, by means of straw or boards under his 

 hind feet. Give the following dose of medicine to work on his 

 bowels and relieve the pain : 



Raw Linseed Oil 1 pint. 



Tincture of Laudanum .*....! ounce or 4 tableapoonf ula. 



Shake well together and give as a drench. Feed the horse 



on soft feed with lots of boiled linseed in it to keep the bowels 



loose. If the case is caused by constipation of the bowels, give : 



Bitter Aloes 8 drams. 



Ginger 1 tableapoonf ul. 



OummoD Soda 1 " 



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



PERITONITIS. 



This is inflammation of the serous membrane found lining 

 the inside of the belly and over the outside of the bowels. 



Causes. — It is ^--enerally caused from exposure to cold after 

 some weakening disease. This disease is also noticed to come 

 alter the colt has been castrated and he has been left out in a 

 cold rain or walked throug:h a river when warm after castration, 



