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warning or preparation, the body leaps upward to fall violently upon 
the floor. The shock is often fearful; but the animal in its torment 
appears to derive ease from the violence. Being down, it rolls from side 
to side and kicks about, until one of its feet, touching the wall, enables 
the horse to poise itself upon the back. 
Should relief not be quickly provided, colic soon passes into enteritis. 
The pulse, from being unchanged at first, then simply quickened by pain, 
THE THIRD STAGE OF S8PASMODIC COLIC. 
grows harder and more wiry. The intermissions are lost, and though 
the anguish may for a space be less, yet in its continuity it is more 
exhausting. 
On the appearance of colic, the morbid action ought to be imme- 
diately counteracted. Aloes in solution is generally administered; such 
a medicine, unless guarded as before recommended, is by no means ad- 
visable. Sulphuric ether and laudanum should be in the possession 
of every horse proprietor. One pint of each—the two being mixed 
together, with one ounce of rank oil floating on the top to prevent 
evaporation or mistakes—will be perfectly safe in any household. The 
mixture should, however, be well shaken before it is employed: two 
ounces of the combination in half a pint of water constitutes an excel- 
lent colic drink. Give three of these, one every ten minutes. If no 
improvement be displayed, double the quantity of the active agents 
and continue the drenches at the period stated: these medicines should 
be persevered with until the symptoms disappear. 
Turpentine, as an enema, is an excellent adjunct. Mr. T. W. Gowing, 
of Camden Town, cured a lingering fit of colic by administering a pint 
of turpentine mixed with a quart of the solution of soap. The strong 
liquor of ammonia, diluted with six times its bulk of water and applied 
by means of a saturated cloth, held to the abdomen in a rug several 
