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or ground, arches the back, looks around to the flank, 

 and attempts to lie down, kicks at the belly and rolls on 

 the ground, seems to improve and will go to eating and 

 remain that way for a short time when the spasms again 

 affect him and the symptoms are repeated as before; it 

 might be mentioned that the quiet spells are not shown 

 as plainly in wind colics, in which disease the pains are 

 more continuous and the breathing hastened and difficult, 

 due to the pressure of the distended bowels on the 

 diaphragm, which pressure affects the lungs, limiting the 

 area for those organs to do their work. Eubbing the 

 belly seems to afford relief; colics often recover without 

 treatment; it should be remembered that colic, strictly 

 speaking, is not a disease, but a symptom of pain in the 

 intestines. The pulse is usually full and frequent; there 

 may be patches of perspiration on the body. Unfavor- 

 able symptoms are cold, wet, clammy condition of the 

 body, high temperature, haggard expression of the face, 

 frequent, hard small pulse, together with difficult breath- 

 ing; if the animal passes urine it may be considered a 

 favorable symptom, as showing the spasms have relaxed 

 must have done so to release the sphincter muscle at the 

 neck of the bladder; in this connection it may be stated 

 that horses are seldom affected with urinary troubles, al- 

 though the above symptom often misleads people, who 

 say: "the horse has something the matter with its 

 water," when such is not the case. 



Treatment should be immediate, one of the following 

 prescriptions may be used: 



