54 MODERN FARRIER. 



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A clyster should also be injected, consisting of six 

 quarts of water-gruel, or warm water, and eight 

 ounces of common salt. 



If the disease has continued for several hours, and 

 the pain appears to be great, with a quick pulse, it 

 will be proper to bleed to three quarts, for prevent- 

 ing inflammation, and removing the spasmodic con- 

 traction of the intestine. The draught and clyster 

 ought also to be repeated, and the belly be rubbed 

 for a considerable time with mustard embrocation. 

 If the disease resist these remedies, which will sel- 

 dom happen, give a pint of castor oil, with an ounce 

 and a half of tincture of opium. Let the horse, at 

 the same time, be rubbed perfectly dry by two per- 

 sons, one on each side, and well clothed. The stall 

 or box ought also to be filled with clean litter up 

 to his belly. 



The following draught is also recommended by 

 Mr. White: 



Oil of peppermint, - SO drops. 

 Tincture of opium, - half an ounce. 

 Gum arable, - - 2 ounces. 



The gum to be dissolved in a pint of warm water, 

 and the whole mixed for one dose ; the use of which 

 should be accompanied with frequent small quanti- 

 ties of gruel, linseed tea, or any other mucilaginous 

 fluid, and the injection of a clyster of the kind. 



As this complaint is liable to occur on a journey, 

 wrap the following up closely in a piece of bladder, 

 to be used as occasion requires, viz. 



Castile soap, - - - 3 drachms. 



Camphor, - - - 2 drachms. 



Ginger, - - - 1^ drachms. 



Venice turpentine, - 6 drachms. 



To be made in a ball for one dose. 

 To a horse afflicted by the gripes, give a clyster 

 composed of — 



