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end. In others silver nitrate, or arsenite of copper succeeds. 

 Quinine, nux vomica, pepsin, may be used to improve tone. 

 The diet is usually all important. Well boiled gruels, boiled 

 milk, arrowroot, pulped or scraped, raw flesh may be demanded 

 in different cases. The patient should be kept at perfect rest, 

 and all excitement avoided. 



COLIC, ENTERALGIA, INTESTINAL SPASM. 



Definition. Colicy pains from spasm, enteralgia, tympanitic indigestion, 

 overloading of bowels, impaction, calculi, concretions, sand, foreign bodies, 

 intestinal and arterial parasites, irritants, enteritis, catarrhal, bacteridian, 

 protozoan, chemicals, strangulation, adhesion, volvulus, invagination, her- 

 nia, trauma of stomach or intestines, peritonitis, pleuritis, metritis, ovaritis, 

 hepatitis, biliary calculus, nephritis, urinary calculus, neoplasms, lead pois- 

 oning. Causes of enteralgia or spasm, idiosyncrasy, nervousness, cold, 

 wet, high condition, debility, cold, rain, dew, perspiration, fatigue, indiges- 

 tion, rheumatism. Symptoms : horse — sudden attack, paws, kicks, anxious 

 look at flank, crouches, goes down, rolls, sits, rises, shakes himself, feeds, 

 repeats at intervals, rumbling, defecations. Complications. J Diagnosis, 

 symptoms violent, transient, completely intermittent, no fever, no tender- 

 ness ; from acute indigestion by absence of faulty feed, loaded or tympanitic 

 abdomen, crepitation, continuous pain, and of careful decubitus ; from con- 

 stipation by complete intermissions and freer passages ; from intestinal 

 worms by absence of fur on anus, of rubbed rump, and of parasites in stools ; 

 from verminous thrombosis by complete intermissious and absence of pros- 

 tration, cold sweats and of bloody stools ; from enteritis and other inflam- 

 mations by absence of fever ; from intestinal anthrax by the intermissions, 

 the absence of brownish mucosa, and perhaps of anthrax from the district ; 

 from hepatitis by absence of icterus, tender hypochondrium, and fever ; 

 from kidney affections by lack of stiff, straddling gait, tender loins, stretch- 

 ing ; from pleurisy by absence of catching breathing, tender intercostals, 

 and friction sound ; ruminants — similar symptoms except sitting up or roll- 

 ing ; swine — sudden starting with grunt or scream, vomiting, etc. ; Carni- 

 vora — frequent moving, yelps, snapping, straining, looking at flank. Treat- 

 ment : solipeds, morphia, subcutem, anodynes, laxative, friction, walking, 

 enemata, chloral hydrate ; ruminants, walking, enemata, morphia, laxative ; 

 swine, morphia, laxative, antispasmodics, injections, derivatives ; dog, — 

 purgative, injections, chloral hydrate, ether, olive oil. 



The term colic is loosely applied to all abdominal pains from 

 whatever cause they may arise. It is thus allowed to embrace 



