Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-03-30
collie IN HORSES.

tOllC IN HOksES
The most common kind of collie in horses
is known as wind collie This arises from
fermentation of the food in the stomach,
instead of its healty digestion. Ii horse
is brought in tired and is led Immediately
and fills his stomach, there may not be
sufficient gastric juice to perform its Office.
The food will then ferment Soon the horse
will bloat ; the breathing becomes hard
with frothing at the mouth. This need not
be COMPOUNDED with the hard breathing in
lung fever, since in the latter there Is no
bloating The passages of the stomach and
bowels become clogged with the masses of
undigested food, the gas arising from the
fermentation cannot pass out OF the stomach,
which becomes distended, and presses the
diaphragm forward So that the lungs can
not expand, and the breath becomes
short and hard, and the rapid breath
ing will shortly induce irOthing.
If the trouble reaches this stage the horse
will rarely live more than an hour. In this
disease time is OF the greatest value. As
soon as you see your horse Is bloatlng, give
something to stop the fermentation. For
this heaping table spoonful of saleratus,
is the best thing. Spirits of hartshOrn IN
dose Of half an ounce very much diluted Is
also good. If now you have checked the
fermentation for five minutes, the next
thing is to make the gas pass of. 10 do
this give warm water injections freely. IN
jecting all the animal will hold. II it Is q
pailtul. Turn the horses head down hill.
and use small force pump ifyou have one,
or if not use piece of rubber tube which
should be inserted as far as it will go with
ease, and the end OF the tube may then be
turned up and tunnel put in into " hich turn
warm water. After you have put IN all the
horse will hold, turn him about and let 1t
pass away, and repeat the operation till the
bowels become freed, ard the gas passes off.
Meantime another hand should be pre-
pairing a dose of physic, which should be
from one-half to three-fourths OF an ounce
of aloes. This, if put into water by itself
will not dissolve. but if put into pint of
warm water in which heaping tablespoon
full of saleratus has been dissolved the aloes
will dissolve, and the saleratus will be use
full as an anti-septlc to stop the fermenta-
ton to this can be added some molasses
to make it more palatable.
Should the animal seem in much pain
give two ounces of laudanum or an ounce
of ether, or half an ounce of chloroiOrm.
Should the physic not operate in an hour,
or half an hour if it is a very severe cease,
repeat the dose, keeping up the injections
curing the time.
If there is structure from kinking of the
bowels there will be no help. The lecturer
had known horse to die in thirty minutes
in spite Of all efforts. AcOnite is sometimes
given to cure collie. but it was of no value /;
nor is salt or vinegar. or both, OF use. Chalk
and vinegar which are sometimes given, the
chalk first and then the vinegar, will alone
produce collie. and should never be given.
If You would avoid bursting the bowel. In
no event take out tho animal and run OF
trot him about. nor rub his belly with u
chestnut rail.
The course sometimes adopted of laying
the horse on his side. and getting a heavy
man with thick boots to walk across him.
back and forth, is also useless and cruel
in the extreme. IL the horse can DO saved
it will DO by the use OF injections and
physlc.