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on this occasion ; and I have known many 

 valuable horses destroyed by adopting hastily 

 this mode of treatment. There is a species of 

 flatulent coUc, which, if treated in the common 

 way, is sure to terminate fatally, though it 

 is not at first of an inflammatory nature. This 

 disease will be described in the Appendix, 

 under the head Diseases of the Bou^els; and 

 its remote cause will be more particularly 

 shown ujider the head Humours, Appendix. 



The pain and uneasiness which this com- 

 plaint occasions are so conside^^able as to alarm 

 those who are not accustomed to see it, and 

 lead them to be apprehensive of dangerous 

 consequences ; but if properly treated, it may 

 be easily and expeditiously removed. It begin? 

 with an appearance of uneasiness in the horse, 

 he frequently pawing his litter; he voids a 

 small quantity of excrement, and makes fruit- 

 less attempts to stale ; the pain soon becomes 

 more violent ; he endeavours to kick his belly, 

 and looks round to his flanks, expressing by 

 groans the pain he labours under; at length 

 he lies down, rolls about the stall, and falls 

 into a profuse perspiration. After a short time 

 he generally gets up, and appears for a minute 

 OP two to be getting better, but the pain soon 



