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up; such people are proud of and confident in their secret knowledge ; 
they will lie rather than communicate the contents of their charm. With 
the best hopes the foolish servant will waste precious moments in use- 
less expectation, and watch for results from an injurious or worthless 
potion till the time when curative measures could have been effective 
has passed. Never permit the men who clean the horses also to admin- 
ister to their diseases; the poor fellows may mean well, but they can 
have no knowledge which, in the presence of danger, can be beneficial. 
The primary symptom, to an uninformed observer, may simply an- 
nounce a mild fit of gripes. When the shivering has subsided, the 
horse rolls, plunges, kicks, ete. etc., as he does in spasmodic colic. The 
struggles, however, are less abandoned and far more mannered in inflam- 
mation of the bowels, than in genuine spasm. The pain, moreover, 
which in enteritis accompanies all movements of the diaphragm, throws 
the labor of respiration upon the walls of the thorax. The ribs can 
only partially dilate the lungs; nature endeavors by quickening the 
motion to supply the deficiency. In colic, the breathing is at first only 
excited by the exertion; it is deep and full) At the commencement of 
spasm, the mouth is moist and in temperature 
natural; during enteritis, the breathing is very 
short and the mouth is always hot and dry. 
The pulse is disturbed only as colic pro- 
gresses; in enteritis it is quick, hard, and wiry, 
before the disorder is fully established. The 
term ‘‘wiry” well represents the kind of pulse 
which accompanies enteritis. If a thin metallic 
cord were to strike the finger ends somewhat 
gently, and about seventy times in a minute, it 
rae rest rorenterins artae  WOUld impart the same sensation as is commu- 
mace NUNES? OF THE AT nicated by the beat of the artery during in- 
flammation of the bowels. Besides, pressure in 
colic seems to ease the anguish; in enteritis, the horse often cannot 
bear to have the abdomen touched. The last symptom, however, is 
not always present, neither is there one, save those characteristic of 
general inflammation, which is invariably to be observed. In abdominal 
disease, so many organs are influenced that everything becomes, in a 
vast degree, mystery and confusion. Notwithstanding this, pressure, in 
enteritis, never affords relief; sometimes, however, the hand placed upon 
the belly will elicit the most energetic response. The horse will kick 
with the hind leg, turn round the head, and violently snap the jaws 
together. Then he who applied so rude a test must stand out of the 
reach of the hind foot, at the same time watching the head. Thus all 
