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heavy, indifferent look for two or three minutes at a time, then 

 deliberately lies down and rests, or may roll over once or twice 

 in a languid manner, and afterwards rest for more than an hour 

 at a time, to aU appearance free from pain. In this state the 

 patient may continue for two or three days, or even longer, 

 never exhibiting any particular violence, nor breaking out into 

 a perspiration, and without the pulse being disturbed. 



PATHOGNOMOific Stmptoms 01" CoLic. — Violent pain, of 

 a remittent character, wMcJi is clearly referable to tTie howels, 

 and wJticTi causes the patient to lie down and roll upon the groimd. 



Causes. — The causes of Colic are numerous. Prom a 

 number of others I may enumerate the following as the most 

 common : — sudden changes of the diet, as from grass to dry 

 food, or from dry food to grass ; musty, corn ; the eating of 

 short grass when covered with hoar frost ; also, allowing the 

 horse to eat short grass, which has been some time mown and 

 allowed to ferment prior to its being used as fodder ; allowing 

 the horse to drink greedily of cold water when the body is hot 

 and perspiring. Greedy feeding horses are very liable to 

 dangerous attacks of Colic, especially if they are liberally fed 

 immediately after being brought from severe and long continued 

 labour. Numbers of horses are constitutionally predisposed to 

 the disease, and become affected from caiises which to all appear- 

 ance are of a trifling nature. 



The fourth form of the malady, herein described, generally 

 arises from an accumulation of chopped straw within the large 

 intestines. In numerous cases. Colic may arise from causes 

 which cannot be ascertained with any degree of certainty. ' 



Teeatment. — The best remedies in general for Colic, are — 

 Aconite ■©• and 1, Nux Vomica -e- and 1, Veratrum 1, Oantha- 



