The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-25
Curing Collie in Horses.

The attack is usually very sudden;
there Is often not the slightest warning.
The horse begins to shift his pasture,
look around at his fanks, paw violently,
strike his belly with his feet and crouch
in q peculiar manner; advancing his
hind limbs under him he will suddenly
lie, or rather fall, and balance himself
upon his back, with feet resting upon his
belly. The pain now seems to cease for
awhile; the respite, however, Is but
short; the spasms return more violent
", and every indication of pain Is in
creased. In the space of an hour or two
either the spasms begin to relax or the
torture is augmented at every paroxysm,
the intervals of ease are fewer and less
marked, and Inflammation and death
supervene.
Among the causes of coio.eare the
drinking of cold water when the horse
is heated-there is not a surer origin of
violent spasms than this Collie often
follows the exposure Of a horse to cold
air or wind after strong exertion. An
overloaded stomach Is another cause of
| it, and particularly so when water is
| given before or after a hasty meal that
| the horse is not accustomed to. For
| tunately we are acquainted with several
medicines which viii allay these spasms.
Saleratus Is favorite remedy among
horse men for the cure of collie; being
an ant-acid, 1t combines with the free
acids existing in the digestive cavity,
| and thus neutralizes it. The benefit
| which might be derived from alkai is
often prevented by mixing it with milk
or molasses; both contain an acid, and
must therefore partly neutralize the al
kali before it reaches the stomach.
When saleratus is given, we advise six
ounces dissolved in water as a proper
| dose for q horse. Bat we have, per-
| haps, had better success with laudanum
i in severe cases than any remedy we
| have made use of. Give one ounce in
pint of water, milk warm, and repeat
in thirty minutes where relief is not OBJ
| tained. We have never yet failed in a
/ case with this remedy. We would fur
| ther advise TO keep the horse well blank
eted and kept in motion most of the
i time, though not exercised faster than a
walk. Another good remedy: Powdered
grains OF paradise, one teaspoonful; (;
| powdered caraway, half q toaspoonful I;
| oil of peppermint, twenty drops; pow
| dered slippery elm, one teaspoonful (;
warm water, one pint. Mix together
and give from a bottle or drenching
horn; inject one pint of soapsuds into
the rectum. This is especially good
where the animal labors under pylorous
obstruction.
The old adage that San ounce of
preventive is worth pound of cure,'
we would amend by saying ton OF
cure. Therefore use the same precau-
ton with your horse as you would with
yourself; be careful about the amount
. L. lv. hot nA he
lsamount of feed you give him when hun
CRY. We find it the best method to feed
regularly, and have a measure and give
the same quantity at a feed. After ex-
ercising your horse do not hitch him up
in the cold rain or snow to chill that is
not only inhuman, but conducive TO
collie and many other diseases. En-
tanglement of the intestines Is produced
BY colic When the animal rolls and
throws himself about, portions of the
iutestines become entangled so as to be
twisted into nooses and knots with s
degree of tightness scarcely credible.
There are three kinds of collie, spas
modic, hatulent and stercoral. The
symptoms of fiatulent and spasmodic
are very much the same, except in the
former case the belly swells round, but
mostly on the right flank, and one o.
the best remedies is sulphuric ether,
combined with tincture of opium; and i
relief Is not obtained in an hour; bleed
ing should be resorted to. Stercoral
colo is caused by an obstruction in the
bowels or intestines, aud symptoms dc
not vary much from fatulent. except 8
lack of passage, which obstruction mus
be relieved by large doses of linseed oil
say one pint three times day; at the
same time keep down gripping will
laudanum or tincture of opium, say two
drachms at dose. BY steadily pursu
ing this system of treatment we have
succeeded In establishing cure In somt
of the most stubborn cases OF colio.-
Willamette Farmer.