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mediately succeeding the medicine), starch clysters would be pre- 
ferable to warm water ; and if he is violently purged, a drachm of 
opium may be dissolved in each clyster, and fifteen or twenty 
grains of opium may be given him in his congee every three or four 
hours, as the bowels are so irritable that a common dose of opium 
would be attended with danger. It should be, therefore, adminis- 
tered in small doses, with short intervals, by which mode the 
superabundant irritability will be worn away or allayed. If the 
physic has not operated, the opium should not be used, but the 
animal may be gently walked about. 
If, however, the inflammation should not abate in thirty or forty 
hours, the pain will, perhaps, cease, and he will appear somewhat 
relieved. This opinion may be fallacious, as the inflammation 
will probably be passing to a state of gangrene and mortification, 
which is soon observed by the flanks heaving short and quick, 
and the pulse sinking. These symptoms are the forerunners of 
death. 
There is another kind of inflammation which I have seen in 
England, and which very frequently occurs in this country. 
Cavalry horses encamped in England, in some measure, resem- 
ble horses at their picquets. In England, when in this situation, 
they have been known to eat large quantities of earth. Mr. Cole- 
man mentions his seeing a cart-horse discharge upwards of twenty 
pounds of sand. It will sometimes accumulate in the bowels, and 
form a large stone, which, from its bulk, will produce inflammation. 
It will be obvious that inflammation arising from this cause must 
be very opposite to the last, as the intestines are there contracted, 
and warm emollient injections are employed to soften the acrimony. 
In the present case, the cause must also be removed, which will 
require strong purgatives ; a very opposite treatment to that re- 
commended in the former case. This disease very frequently occurs 
in this country, from the animals eating their grass unwashed. 
Whenever this is suspected, or sand or gravel observed in his 
faeces, a purge should be given. 
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