INDEX 



Food as an exciting cause of colic, 



36 

 Friedberger's classification of equine 



colics, 2 



Gases present in gastric tympany, 



Gastrectasis, 52 

 Gastric impaction, 47 



causes of, 48 



definition of, 47 



diagnosis of, 50 



prognosis of, 50 



symptoms of, 49 



treatment of, 50 

 Gastric tympany, 52 



ammonia in, 66 



antizymotics in, 66 



case of, 69 



causes o(, 54 



danger of sedatives in, 68 



definition of, 52 



diagnosis of, 59 



eructation in, 58 



gases present in, 65 



hydrate of iron in treatment 

 of, 66 



prognosis of, 64 



symptoms of, 56 



treatment of, 65 



vomition in, 59, 65 

 Gorged stomach, 47 

 Grass staggers, 47 

 Grasses, danger in over-ripe, 48 



Heredity a predisposing cause of 



colic, 33 

 Hernia, strangulated, in young 



animals, 334 

 Hindrances to vomition, 29, 30 

 History of case in diagnosing, 22 

 Hoven, 53 

 Human compared with equine colic, 



A, 32 

 Hydrate of iron m treatment of 

 gastric tympany, 66 



Impaction, gastric, 47 

 causes of, 48 

 definition of, 47 

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diagnosis of, 50 



Impaction, gastric, prognosis of, 50 



symptoms of, 49 



treatment of, 50 

 Impaction, intestinal, 80 



exciting cause of, 93 



in young animals, 333 



of double colon, Su 

 Impaction of pelvic flexure of the 

 double colon, 123 



of single colon, 137 



of small intestines, 147 



sedative treatment of, 89, 102 



stimulant treatment of, 92, 143, 

 154 

 Impaction of the ceecum, 219 

 I icision and suture of bowe), 179 

 Inflammation of the bowe's, 200 

 Influence of time of day on pro- 

 duction of colic, 43 

 Injection, intra-intestinal, of anti- 

 zymotics in tympanites, 197 

 Inspection of patient, mode of, 

 21 



preliminary, in young animals, 

 328 

 Intestinal impaction, aloes in, 96 



ammonium carbonate in, 98 



cause of pain in, 93 



chloral hydrate in, 103 



eserine in, 100, 126 



exciting cause of, 93 



in young animal?, 333 



nux vomica in, 99 



reasons against use of sedatives 

 in, 102 



sedative treatment of, 89, 102 



stimulant treatment of, 92, 143, 



IS4 . 

 turpentine in, 100 

 Intestinal irrigation, case treated 



by, 162, 169 

 in obstructions of the colon, 



161 

 obstructions, surgical featment 



of, 173 

 septic infection a cause of colic, 

 45, 203 

 of enteritis, 203 

 Intestinal tympany, 189 

 causes of, 189 

 definition of, 180 



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