The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-04-22
Collie in fIe Horse.

The attack of collie is usually very sudden,
with frequently not the slightest warning
The horse scrapes with the fore feet, kicks at
the belly, shifts about turns round, smells the
floor, crouches in peculiar manner, suddenly
lies down, rolls, balances himself upon his
back, breathing heavily throughout. Soon
the pain seems to cease for little while, and
the animal gets up, shakes himself and begins
to feed, The respite, however, is but short,
and the spasm often returns more violently,
with every indication of increasing pain.
Among the causes of collie are the drinking
OF cold or hard water in large quantities when
the horse is heated. A handful of oatmeal
in the water, and the chill also taken off, are
of incalcalable benefit. Collie will sometimes
follow the exposure of a horse to the cold air
or cold wind after strong exercise. Green
food, though generally beneficial to horse,
yet If given in mmoderate quantities, or
when the animal is heated, will frequently
produce gripes. Some horses appear to be
constitutionaly predisposed to collie, owing
probably to some organic intestinal disease.
Various remedies are put in use by horse own
ers and veterinarians, such as turpentine,
tincture of opium, solution of aloes with in
Jections OF warm water, or containing solu-
ton of aloes, or tobacco smoke. The follow
ing suggestion by an English veterinary sur
geon seems to be a reader, far safer, and
more certain means of relief and cure, besides
having the advantage OF being at hand at
every farmhouse.
Apply at once a horse blanket or wooden
rug folded into two thicknesses, wrung out of
boiling water, to the belly and up the sides,
covering tightly with couple more blankets
to retain the heat. AS the application cools
renew as often as needful. A large bran
poultice, as hot as can be borne, is equally
effective and retains the heat longer. Should
there at the same time be difficulty in stale
ing, which is often the case, apply similar
hot cloth or poultice over the kidneys, when
the urine will be relieved. 1t is well also to
give an injection of warm water, about blood
heat, into the bowels, and if necessary dose
OF hot water with teaspoonful of tincture
of cayenne into the stomach.
Lay the animal in a well-bedded, loose box,
darken the window and leave him for quar-
ter of an hour. In an ordinary case, the
cloths or bran poultice will not need above
one renewal; in severe cases they may be
shifted four times within the hour, and hot
fermentation also applied to the spine, which
latter also has a wonderfully soothing effect,
wash down with tepid water, dry well, cover
up, give bran-mash and allow DAYS rest
lor inc fatigue the disease occasionod. Now,
Waetner the case is of simple collie, with q
quiet pElse, or proceeds to Inflammation of the
stomach or intestines, with a bounding flow
of blood, the treatment is the same. The
horse is simply relieved through the outer
skin instead OF through the lining membrane
of the stomach. The outer skin is the more ac-
cessible; it has millions of pores and count
less nerves to act upon. This treatment
draws the disease to the outside at once, and
ii is perfectly safe. Animal life is much the
same whether in man or in the horse, while
the same means of cure in disease-warmth
and moisture-applied locally or generally,
will tell hundred times more effectually than
physicking or similar methods. american
CultiudtOr.