54 PRIVATE PRESCRIPTIONS 
will kill ajbot without killing the horse. A bot will live 
fifteen minutes in turpentine or strong tobacco juice anp 
from eight to ten minutes in carbolic acid. When you see 
a horse rolling or giving forth any of the signs of disease, 
study; the symptoms to the end that you may learn what 
the trouble’is,’always remembering to let the bots take care 
of themselves. In’may cases the trouble is billious colic 
instead of ‘‘bots,’’ this being a very common mistake—in 
fact the most common one in this connection. 
Bilicus Colic. 
A colic of this kind is quite different to the others, and 
possibly ought to be studied under the head of diseases of 
the liver, but owing to the fact that many make the mis- 
take of say'ng a horse has the ‘‘bots,’’ when bilious colic 
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is the trou’)! §£' leem it proper to consider it here. 
Cawse—' ot cours '* a want of functionol activity om the 
par of the liver. that is the liver fails to perform its part of 
werk in the eearaomy of the animal. 
HOW TO KNOW IT. 
The patient gets down and rolls, throws his head around 
to his side, turns up his upper lip and shows by his every 
act that he is suffering from 
pain in either stomach or 
bowels and probably both. 
The pulse will bat —" 
be no <welleee in the flanks. 
This is the only disease with no swelling in the flanks in 
which the pulse is hard and regular. 
