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a few days the animal exhibited considerable uneasiness and de¬ 
pression, but this gradually went off. 
Notwithstanding the danger that attends its inconsiderate ad¬ 
ministration, it is a useful purgative when prudently given. It 
may be given dissolved in alcohol, or made into a ball with pow¬ 
der of marsh-mallow root and honey. 
Colocynth seems to be inert as a purgative in the horse. 
Although a few grains of it will purge the human being violently, 
four drachms have been given to a little horse without producing 
the slightest effect. 
Bryony, Hedge Hyssop, Black Hellebore, and Eu- 
phorbium, might be added to the list of purgatives; but the 
former are rarely employed by the practical veterinarian, and 
the latter are employed externally as rubefacients. 
iExtrartsh 
Cholic followed by Rupture of the Colon in a 
Horse. 
By M. Berger. 
If the inflammatory diseases which in the horse have their , 
seat in the abdominal cavity, and are known under the general 
names of colic and gripes, ever merit the first of these designa¬ 
tions, it is unquestionably when the colon is affected; but cus¬ 
tom has given it a more extensive acceptation, and “ all pains in 
the intestinal canal, whether primitive or secondary, and what¬ 
ever be the cause, are called by this name*.” “ In general, we 
know that a horse is attacked with the gripes when he lies down 
and rises almost immediately, is fidgetty and uneasy, and stamps 
with his fore feet, and does not remain still a moment^.” 
Veterinarians are of one opinion on the general symptoms 
which characterize cholic or gripes: they know that the horse 
abandons himself to violent movements; that he alternately lies 
down and rises; looks at his flanks, and paws with his fore¬ 
feet : the motion of the flanks is often accelerated ; he frequently 
perspires, tries to vomit without being able to accomplish it; and 
his pulse varies according to the nature of the case, &c. 
“ With regard to specific symptoms,” says Dr. Pariset, “ that 
is to say, those proper to characterize such or such particular 
cholic, they are sometimes very evident, at others hardly dis¬ 
coverable ; whence it follows, that the diagnostic of each is very 
difficult to establish; and as the diagnostic is of indispensable 
* Bouley, jun. f Lafosse Dictionnaire d’Hippiatrique. 
