The Horse.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 14, 8 October 1874, Page 4

The Horse.

♦ — The Windy or Flatulent Colic. The windy or flatulent colic is in general produced by the horse eating greedily of some succulent food, as fresh clover, different grasses, new hay, or new corn, and sometimes from drinking cold water. It may be occasioned by any one of these things, which soon produces flatulency, and great debility, from acid and other crudities engendering either in the stomach, or some part of the intestines, and is indicated by the following symptoms.The horse often lies down, and suddenly rises ag*ain with a spring ; strikes his belly with his hind feet, stamps with his fore feet, and refuses every kind of food. When this disorder is violent, it throws his bodyinto convulsive motions, his eyes are turned up, and his limbs stretched out as if dying ; his ears and feet are sometimes hot and sometimes cold ; he falls into profuse sweats, and ; and then into cold damp ones : he often tries to stale, but without effect, and often turns his head towards his flank, sensible of the part where the pain lies; he then falls down suddenly, rolls himself over, and often turns on his back ; this last symptom, in general, proceeds from a stoppage in the urine, which attends this sort or< colic, and the pain is often increased by a load of dung pressing on the neck of the bladder. T he following drinks and clysters rarely fail i to give relief in this disorder : — • A DftlNK. — Take spirit of turpentine, dulcified spirits of Dim", ot each oie ounce ; oil of juniper, tincture of opium, of each half an ounce; bay-berriep, and fresa ground u'xae, r, \of each one oun- c*. wt-rm a i ii<t of ale fir«t, then mix the powders anil last y the liquids, aud give the whole immediately »tie*. Or, Takw hmeed oil, one pint; spirit or turpentine, thre- f unceaj - tincture of opium, one ounce and a half. Mix all together. If the horse is not better within two i hours after taking either of the above, I give the following drink ; — Aromatic spirit of hartshorn, two ounces? ca.sii'e soap and prepared kali, ot each half n ..unce; dissolve the s:>ap ani kali in tbe hi? tshorn by trituration in a mortar » adi tiictqre of opium, oil of juniper, and oil of turpentine, of each hat an ounce; ging.r, fresh ground, one ounce. Firnt warm apnt of ale. then mix the whole of th- ingredients, and $»ive ie while new milk warm, with the additiou of half a pint ot gruel. Either of these drinks will be found to have the desired effect ; the former in stimulating the stomach and intestines to fresh action, the latter in correcting the acidity and promoting fresh excitement to those debilitated parts. If the horse is not relieved of his pain in two hours after giving the first drink, let him have the following clyster : — , Linseed, iouro- n es — hoil it in three quarts of water until it U reduced to Cwp; l«t ir. .*tand ten minutes, tht-n pour iff the ciear liquid, and dis*olve therein four ounces of Glauber's salts; half a pound of trtacle, and one handful of cororuoo salt. It must here be repeated that before any clyster be administered, a small hand should be well ruboed with it, and then be passed up 'the horse's fundament, in order to bring away the hardened feeces, which otherwise would obstruct the passage of the clyster. This will, in most cases, have the desired effect. A F\rriejr..