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DISEASES AND THE IE TREATMENT. 



if taken up for a day, and a feed of bats or dry food given, it is apt 

 to cause gripes ; feeding new oats or new corn is a common cause ; 

 applications of cold water to the body ; drinking freely of cold 



Fig. 815. — Second Stage of Spasmodic Colic. 



water when heated, especially if hard well-water, often gives rise 

 to a severe attack ; worms and other intestinal irritants may induce 

 it ; costiveness and unwholesome food often cause it ; overloading 



Fig. 816. — Third Stage of Spasmodic Colic. 



the stomach, or being put to work on a full stomach, will give 

 rise to it. J -v- 



Symptoms. — The animal is suddenly seized with pain in the 

 bowels, becoming restless and uneasy, crouching, sometimes strik- 

 ing up toward the belly with the hind foot, looking round to his 



