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The patient will sit on his haunches like a dog, his nos- 
trils will be distended and his breathing labored, he will 
turn up his lip as though his stomach was nauseated, and 
appear as if trying to vomit, but this he can not do on ac- 
count of the peculiar formation of the stomach. The mus- 
cles of the legs will tremble and shake as if heg] 
was having a chill, his legs get cold and cold sweat breaks | 
Out in spots upon him The pulse is very small and fast, 1 
and when it passes 85 beats per minute, death soon claims 
the patient. 
Constipation. 
When fecal matter in the intestines becomes dry and 
hard or from any cause resists the paristaltic efforts of the 
bowels to pass it on, or when paristaltic action is interfered 
with or suspended for a time and the fecal matter lays quiet 
in one place, there is to all intents and purposes an ob- 
struction formed. This condition is called constipation or 
costiveness. 
Cause—It is due to a drying and hardening of matter in 
the bowels, which is brought about by there being an in- 
sufficient quantity of water present, this state being pro- 
duced by most of the water going to the kidneys, or horse 
not drinking enough. Again the cause may be from the 
liver and other glands not secreting enough of the typical 
juices necessary to supply nature’s wants in the bowels. 
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But little if any fecal matter will be passed, that, which 
