FLATULENT COLIC, ETC. 201 
W. Percivall asserts that animals roll and kick at the abdomen dur- 
ing flatulent colic. Every fact requires to be respectfully considered 
which is recorded by so estimable a writer; but the author has never 
witnessed such symptoms in genuine flatulent colic. The horse will 
stand in one spot throughout the day; even the movement of the foot, 
before noticed, appears to be an exertion. The eye is sleepy, the pulse 
heavy, wind frequently passes from the body, and in such a condition 
the animal remains, slowly becoming worse. 
Almost in the same place the horse may stand three or four days; 
then the abdomen is much increased in size; the animal is restless; the 
pulse is extremely feeble; the breathing is very fast; the pupil of the 
eye is dilated and the sight is lost. A walk as in a mill is commenced; 
obstacles are run into or upset; delirium begins; weak neighs are 
uttered in reply to visionary challenges; the coat is ragged; copious 
and partial perspirations break forth; the beat of the artery is lost at 
the jaw; an intermittent flutter is to be indistinctly felt at the heart. 
At last the limbs fail; the body falls; struggles ensue, and the creature 
dies in consequence of the distended abdomen compressing the lungs, 
thus preventing the breath being inhaled. 
Relief should be afforded before the distress grows urgent; when the 
flatulence comes on without green provender being consumed, the chances 
favor recovery; even then, however, the gas may be confined to the 
stomach, which obliges entire dependence to be placed upon internal 
remedies. In the beginning, a ball composed 
of two drachms of sulphuret of ammonia, with 
a sufficiency of extract of gentian and pow- 
dered quassia, may be repeated thrice, half an 
hour being suffered to elapse between each ad- 
ministration. No benefit ensuing, one ounce of 
chlorate of potash, dissolved in a pint of cold 
water and mingled with two ounces of sulphu- 
ric ether, may, at the expiration of the time 
named, be horned down. After another hour, 
should no amendment be perceptible, two ounces 
each of sulphuric ether and laudanum, half an 
ounce of camphorated spirits, and one drachm 
of carbonate of ammonia may be given in a 
pint of cold water. Should no good effects ** 70A@oSMORE ENEMA. WoRMs. 
ensue, in another hour throw up a tobacco-smoke enema by means of 
the machine here represented. 
As a last resort, should the previous remedies prove of no avail, pro- 
cure a stick of brimstone; light it and let it fill the place with the 
