CHAPTER XXIV 



THE TREATMENT OF YOUNG, UN- 

 BROKEN ANIMALS 



What I am about to write of now may mois concern 

 the student and beginner than the staid man of practice. 

 Nevertheless, I did not feel this little volume to be com- 

 plete without some mention of the matter now under 

 consideration. 



Yearlings and Two-year-olds. — There is nothing so 

 difficult, even to the practised veterinarian, as the correct 

 diagnosis of ' colic ' in an unbroken colt. In many 

 instances the animal is, perhaps, at pasture. He is seen 

 to be lying or rolling about, and is driven up into the 

 yard for treatment. If he is fortunate enough to have' 

 received no pulling about or forcing of medicines upon 

 him by the owner, the patient will give a tolerably clear 

 account of his trouble to the skilled attendant. More 

 often than not, however, he will have been haltered and 

 twitched, and some patent ' cure-all ' thrust upon him. 

 In that case the excitement of his new surroundings, and 

 the exertion of fighting against restraint, will have led to 

 a perplexing set of symptoms. He is, perchance, in a 

 bath of sweat, his conjunctiva injected, his respirations 

 enormously hurried, and his pulse beating at a frantic 

 rate. All this may be due to the treatment he has 



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