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given at first to reduce the pain, it should be quickly followed 

 by a purgative. I usually give a dose or two of camphor, 

 and some enemas of warm water. If at the end of an hour 

 the horse is not cured, this is followed by a purgative of 

 aloes or oil. 



I have for many years given up the favourite remedy, 

 opium, because, while lulling pain, it stops the action of the 

 intestines and liver, thus delaying the evacuation of the 

 irritant. Camphor does not have the latter effect. 



Tincture of aconite, in ten-drop doses, is a very excellent 

 medicine. It allays spasm, and has a tendency, when re- 

 peatedly given, to increase the action of the bowels. 



ExjPTURED Stomach. 



Cases of death from rupture of the stomach or intestines 

 occasionally occur now, but were far more common about 

 fifteen years ago, when it was the universal custom to soak 

 the gram in water for several hours before giving it to the 

 horses. 



The general symptoms of rupture are, severe pain, a pulse 

 rapidly increasing in frequency and decreasing in power 

 until almost imperceptible, vomiting of food in small quan- 

 tities through the nostrils, cold extremities, profuse perspira- 

 tion, and sometimes sitting upon the haunches, with the 

 body raised on the fore-legs like a dog. 



When such symptoms are present, it is scarcely necessary 

 to remark that medicines are useless, and must add to the 

 horse's torture. 



Biliousness. 



Biliousness, going on if not checked to bilious fever, is not 

 uncommon in the hot season, especially during breaks in the 

 rains, when the air is very warm and at the same time 

 saturated with watery vapour. It can easily be understood 

 that when the atmosphere is in this state the moisture given 

 off by the lungs and skin is not so readily absorbe,d as it 

 would be by dry air, and consequently escapes with difficulty. 

 The blood therefore has a tendency to become overloaded 



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