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DYSENTERY. 



DEFOR^IITTES IN YOUNG COLTS, are usually canscd by an insuf- 

 ficient nourishmont; but if the colt is taught to suck milk from a bot- 

 tle, or something else, so as to become well nourished, deformities of 

 the limbs will usually be removed. 



L)IAlvRII(EA. When this disease is not attended with pain, griping 

 or pawing, as in colic, it will generally require no treatment, but if it 

 continue, and the horse shows signs of pain or colic there is reason for 

 tlie belief tliat there is some irritating poison retained in the bowels 

 which does not pass away in the excrement. (See dysentery.) 

 Treatment. Treatment that will allay pain is demanded. 

 Give twenty drops of tincture of aconite root in a little water, and fol- 

 low with a powder as given below, every three hours, until the horse is 

 better. Take prepared chalk, five drachms; cateolm, pulverized, one 

 drachm ; pulv. opium, ten grains; mix and give as stated above. Give 

 plenty of good cold water to drink. 



When the diarrhoea is better give bran mash for a few days and add 

 a little ground flaxseed if convenient. 



DYSENTERY, ACUTE. Tiiis disease in the horse is very violent, 

 because the length and size of the intestines of the horse render any dis- 

 ease within them a very serious aftair. 



Cause. Acute dysentery is caused by taking some acrid substance 

 into the stomach, such as croton oil with aloes, which produce an inflam- 

 matory purgation; or from the injudicious use of various poisons, such 

 as tartar emetic, corrosive sublimate, blue vitriol, arsenic, etc. etc. 

 Nearly all of these substances will be eaten readily if mixed with the 

 grain, therefore any person 

 not knowing the proper quan- 

 tity of such poisons to give 

 should not venture to use 

 them. 



Symptoms are obscure at 

 the commencement. As in 

 nearly all disorders of the in- 

 testines, so in this, there is 

 pain in the abdomen. The 

 pain may be slight at first or 

 it may be so violent as to be 

 confounded with the pangs 

 of colic; the thirst is exces- 

 sive; the stench offensive. 



The position of the body, as 

 shown in the engraving, is 

 expressive of abdominal pain. 



SUFFERING FROM THE EFFECTS OF A 

 POWERFUL POISON. 



