CHAPTEE VI. 



DISEASES OF THE STOMACH AND BOWELS. 



1. SOUR STOMACH. II. COLIC. III. THE BOT. IV. INFLAMMATION AND 



RUPTURE OF THE COLON. V. INFLAMMATION AND BLEEDING OF THE REC- 

 TUM. VI. SPONTANEOUS SALIVATION. VII. INFLAMMATION OF THE STOM 



ACH. VIII. SORENESS AND ITCHING OF THE ANUS. IX. CHRONIC GASTRITIS. 



——X. SPASMS OF THE DIAPHRAGM. XI. RUPTURE OF THE STOMACH. 



XII. INFLAMMATION OF THE PERITONEUM. XIII. STRANGULATION OF THB 



INTESTINES. XIV. FUNCTIONAL DISEASES OF THE LIVER. XV. PARASITES 



WHICH AFFECT THE LIVER. XVI. DIARRHEA. 



I. Sour Stomach. 



Animals living upon vegetable food, where the mastication or the 

 grinding down of the substances taken into the mouth is imperfectly 

 accomplished, or where a greedy animal is allowed to overload the 

 stomach with food, since it thus is imperfectly moistened with saliva, 

 are subject to acidity of the stomach, fermentation of the food, and 

 the diseases attendant thereupon. Carbonic acid gas is evolved, and if 

 not checked in time will sometimes cause violent and extreme distension 

 and inflammation of the stomach, the result of decomposition, or spas- 

 modic colic, with paroxysms of extreme agony, and sometimes the most 

 violent rupture of the stomach ending in death. 



We often see violent distension of the stomach in cattle when turned 

 into a field of flush clover when hungry ; the remedy in this case is 

 thrusting a trochar or knife into the stomach to allow the escape of th« 

 gases. When in the horse inflammatory action has been set up it may 

 lead to many diseases, each of which must be treated according to the 

 symptoms exhibited. 

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