90 MODERN FARRIER. 



warm gi'uel and two table spoonfuls of sugar. Re- 

 peat it once a day, for every other day, three or four 

 times. 



If the cough be accompanied by a considerable 

 degree of fever, and the horses pulse is hard, it will 

 be proper to draw blood, according to the urgency 

 of the symptoms, before giving any internal remedy, 

 or using warm clothing. After bleeding, a drench 

 composed of warm ale, with a drachm or two of salt 

 of hartshorn, or half an ounce of spirits of hartshorn 

 sweetened with molasses, will prove an excellent 

 remedy ; after taking which, the animal should be 

 well rubbed down, and clothed as before. If he 

 is costive, back-raking, followed by clysters, will be 

 advisable ; and throughout the treatment costiveness 

 must be avoided. 



In order to decrease the fever, give the following 

 drench : 



Nitre, - . _ _ 1 ounce. 

 Emetic tartar, - - - 2 drachms. 



Dissolved in water-gruel. 



If it be necessary to obviate costiveness, give — 



Epsom salts, _ _ - 8 ounces. 

 Emetic tartar, - - - 1 drachm. 



Dissolved in one quart of Avater-gruel. If a ball 

 should be preferred, and the throat be not sore or 

 swelled, give the following : 



Aloes Barbadoes, - - 8 drachms. 

 Castile soap, - - - 2 drachms. 

 Ginger, - - - - 1 drachm. 



To be made in a ball with syrup of buckthorn. 



The cough generally goes off when the inflamma- 

 tion ceases : but should it become a chronic cough, 

 the horse should be exposed as little as possible to 

 any violent changes of temperature, and, if the sum- 

 mer be warm and drv, two or three months' run at 



