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this is the harbinger of death. Cohesion of the 

 gilt together sometimes baffles the best treatment 

 for colic, and soon devolves into inflammation. In 

 either case, the remedies proper for colic must be 

 abandoned, and others more adapted to the change 

 of circumstances be employed instead. 



Whenever the cause of inflammation of the bowels 

 may fairly be ascribed to the quantity or quality of 

 their contents — without adding to the irritation by 

 any extraordinary exertion, its approach will be 

 very slow, and denoted by sluggishness and the 

 refusal of food at first. As they are mostly working 

 cattle that are thus attacked, the evacuations are 

 not sufficiently minded, or the attendant neglects 

 to make mention how these have discontinued in a 

 great degree, or changed their appearance— the 

 dung being then hard, and the urine high coloured ; 

 hereupon the pulse increases, and the outrageous 

 symptoms described in the second column of the 

 table of symptoms go on to a frightful extent, ei> 

 dangering the lives of bystanders. Even in this 

 stage, the progress of the disease may be arrested 

 by prompt and vigorous measures, adapted to the 

 kind of animal that may be the subject of attack, 

 and the circumstances under which the present 

 alarming symptoms may have been brought on. If 

 a heavy lumbering waggon-horse, that owes his 

 disease to alimentary indulgence, we shall find no 

 higher operation necessary than emptying the over- 

 charged canal by force of arms, i. e. back-raking; 

 but the high-couraged stage-coach horse, which 



