A treatise on the horse : its diseases, lameness, and improvement : in which is laid down the proper method of shoeing the different kinds of feet ... / by William Osmer.

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1830
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    Chap. IV.] COLIC, OF TWO KINDS. No. 2. The Alterative. Barbadoes aloes 7 drachms, Venice soap „ 4 drachms, Oil of caraway 20 drops; mis, as before, and divide into three balls, to be given on three successive days, unless a proper motion is procured by the second. Give bran- mashes, as much as the horse will take. By oft recurrence of A cold, or long conti- nuance of a cough, broken wind is superinduced ; but let no man lend an ear to the announcements of cures for broken-winded horses, how pompous soever they may appear; because, in this case, certain glands (called the lymphatic), which are placed upon the air-pipe at its entrance into the lungs, are become enlarged, and thereby the dia- meter of the tube is lessened. Hence the received air cannot so readily make its escape, nor respi- ration be performed with such facility as before; from which superabundant quantity of contained air the lobes of the lungs are always enlarged, as may be seen on examining the carcases of broken- winded horses, after they are dead. Gripes, or colic, are of two kinds:—1°. the spas- modic; 2°. the inflammatory. The first proceeds from catching a slight cold in the bowels when these may be foul, or from drinking cold water; the second, or inflammatory, is brought on from the same two causes, more severely incurred, as well as from costiveness and consequent heat terminating- in inflammation of the bowels; as does tumour also.