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pain. Rolling, pawing, and shifting about, sweating, and breath- 

 ing fast, with great fever, exaltation, and excitement. A fearful 

 disease. Happily not so frequent as formerly. 



Can only be mistaken for colic (which see). In colic there are 

 times of ease and pain, but never in this disease. 



Causes. Exposure to cold, drinking cold water in great quantities 

 when hot, calculi, or hair balls in the bowels, costiveness, diarrhoea, 

 and as a sequel to colic, lead and other poisons which see). 



2Veaimen<. The first thing to be done is to lessen or destroy pain. 

 Give a large dose of the tincture of aconite root, say thirty drops, 

 to be repeated in two hours. Apply blankets wrung out of boil- 

 ing water to the belly, and renew them in about twenty minutes. 

 Give injections of warm not hot water, soap, and a handful of table 

 salt every half hour. Continue the treatment while there is 

 enough strength remaining. 



Bleeding will only insure and hasten death, and purgatives are 

 too slow to act — the horse is either dead, or will be before any 

 response can be had from them. 



Brain Diseases. — The brain and its coverings, or membranes, 

 are subject to inflammations of every degree. (See Apoplexy and 

 Staggers.) 



Breaking Down. — This accident means or consists in rupture 

 of the tendons and ligaments, and occurs at once when the horse 

 is at full speed. 



Symptoms. The horse stops suddenly, or perhaps stumbles and 

 falls ; gets up but stands on his fetlocks, the toe of the foot turned 

 up, and the sole of the foot, as it were, looking at you. 



Treatment. If the fetlock comes entirely to the ground, not much 

 can be done ; and when it does not, contraction of the leg takes 

 place, and requires division of the tendon. (See Tendeotomy.) 



Breathing Short. — This is a symptom of irritation, inflamma- 

 tion, debility, weakness, oppressions of every kind, and fever 

 (which see). 



Breeze Flies. — This is the fly supposed, but erroneously, to be 

 the one that deposits the ova or eggs, which generate bots in horses. 

 (See Worms.) 



Brittle Feet. — (See Foot Diseases.) 



Bronchi. — This term means the wmdpipe, and communicates 



