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the system of stimulants is kept up by repetition. 

 This treatment, however, cannot always succeed; so 

 we frequently find that stallions die suddenly of in- 

 flammation in the intestines, in the spermatic cords, 

 or other parts of generation. Cases of death, in 

 actus coitu, from the same causes, are upon record. 

 We mentioned this before, at page 62. 



All horses, indeed, that have been pampered in 

 the above manner, or by being kept in close stables, 

 or having their water chilled, when they come to 

 be subjected to common usage, are most likely to 

 suffer by colic in its worst forms. Horses that are 

 made up for sale by dealers and cunning breeders, • 

 in order to give their coats a sleek appearance, 

 upon passing into the hands of new owners, com- 

 monly undergo attacks, more or less acute, of spas- 

 modic colic, if they do not at once fall ill of inflam- 

 mation of bowels, kidneys, or bladder. With animals 

 so circumstanced, mere flatulency or looseness may 

 be considered a favourable termination of the mak- 

 ing up system before alluded to. 



Symptoms, — These, as contradistinguished from 

 those which denote inflammation of the intestines, 

 will be found in the table of comparative symptoms 

 at page 253. In addition thereto, other symptoms, 

 that mark the degree of spasmodic attack, require 

 equal discrimination ; seeing that the treatment which 

 may be highly proper in the more virulent attacks, 

 would be injurious if employed upon every slight 

 occasion. Neither is it every horse which shows 

 signs of pain in the inside that hath the colic, even 



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