194 SPASMODIC COLIC, ETC. 
Tobacco smoke enemas are sometimes efficacious when all the pre- 
vious measures are powerless. Frequently the posterior irritation is 
distressing. It is sometimes so provoking that the horse will thereby 
be induced to destroy its personal appearance by rubbing the tail and 
quarter violently against the wall, or any rough surface within its reach. 
In such cases the injections of train oii are most likely to prove bene- 
ficial; the local itching may be in some measure removed by inserting 
up the anus a portion of the following ointment night and morning :— 
Glycerin; 2 «) & = Se & & @ e = = & Halfan ounce; 
permaceh, sc. air Ge Be ee . . . . One ounce. 
Melt the last and blend. When nearly cold, add— 
Mercurial ointment (strong) . . . . . . . Three drachms. 
Powdered camphor . ... .. . . . . Three drachms. 
SPASMODIC COLIC.—FRET.—GRIPES. 
Spasmodic colic is an affection which every loiterer about a stable, 
from a posthoy to a farrier, imagines he is able to cure. Many attacks 
no doubt would depart of themselves; others might be removed by sim- 
ple motion. Nevertheless such possible remedies should never be trusted. 
Neither should gin and pepper, red pepper and peppermint, hot beer 
and mustard, rubbing the abdomen with a broomstick, kneading the 
belly violently with a man’s knee, or any popular measure be permitted. 
Such remedies are likely to get rid 
of colic by causing enteritis. When 
inflammation of the bowels thus origi- 
nates, it is generally fatal, the strength 
being exhausted and the powers of 
nature worn out by the previous dis- 
order—not to mention the preposses- 
NG noNome one “"* sion of the spectators, which prevents 
aa. The healthy intestine rendered much the more serious disease from being 
more vascular by the blood being spasmodically early recognized. 
driven out of other portions of the tube. 
b. A portion of the tube much diminished by Any cause may kindle colic. It is 
the presence of abdominal spasm. 
whieh pee eupearanc, denetig the place common after fast driving; hence 
many gentlemen take colic drinks to 
Epsom races. That affection which in ladies is designated spasms, in 
gentlemen is called pain in the bowels, and in children is known as the 
bellyache, is, in the horse, colic; and from the largeness of the animal’s 
intestines, the affection probably provokes more anguish in the quad- 
ruped than the same disorder does in the entire human race. Under 
whatever term it may be recognized, spasmodic colic is never more than 
