144 Oyi the Yellow TFater of Horses. 



admit their application. On conversing with medical 

 gentlemen, I found varieties of opinion. Some con- 

 demned the calomel — some the bleeding; — both as to 

 the remedy and quantity — and some recommended 

 both. I should have been perplexed, had I not consi- 

 dered it a case which nothing could deteriorate. The 

 first victim died in a few hours, without furnishing any 

 materials for disputes about remedies. A fruitless at- 

 tempt was made to bleed him and he took no medicine. 

 The second died in two or three, and the third in eight 

 days. Bleeding was freely, but ineffectually, used in 

 the case of the second horse. The third was bled com- 

 paratively little. The survivor was bled plenteouslj^, 

 and took mercury in great quantities; though one of the 

 fiiculty told me he Jiad not taken enough. I found them 

 out of their usual track of practical intelligence, when 

 the diseases, or cure, of quadrupeds were in question. 

 A friend (Col. S. Miles) some years ago, at his iron 

 w^orks in Center county, had a number of horses seized 

 with this disorder, and lost none : though the horses, 

 very generally, through the neighbouring country, died 

 of this disease. He cured by immediate and plentiful 

 bleeding and nitre. He took, at various times, from 6 

 to 8 gallons of blood from an horse. The most^.was 

 drawn at the first bleeding. Another, who has been 

 very successful, cured, by one or two copious bleedings, 

 a violent purge — and afterwards, gentle opening medi- 

 cine, and 7iitre. But, above all, he recommends clean- 

 liness, good nursing, and repeated rubbing, not slightly, 

 but laboriously. The horse should be clad, and kept 

 from sun, jiight air, and dexvs. 



