16 On the Use and Abuse of Purgatives. 



the sudden change of their diet^ and of the hot and foul air which 

 they breathe in Stables. Common sense therefore^ apart from 

 all Theory^ would seem to point out. the necessity of gradually 

 seasoning- Horses, in order to enable them to bear such prodigious 

 changes as lliey are frequently exposed to, instead of expecting that 

 they shall be suddenly able to endure them with impunity. The 

 same remarks will apply equally to the System, which ought to be 

 observed previously to turning Horses put to grass from the Stable, 



The complaint called Broken Wind' too, frequently results, I 

 apprehend, from inattention to the particulars which have been 

 Retailed. 



Having thus insisted upon all the circumstances of moment which 

 are necessary to be attended to, in order to ensure the safe and 

 certain operation of Aloes upon the Horse'^ Bowels, it becomes 

 nevertheless incumbent upon me to point out the mode of treatment, 

 which ought to be adopted in those cases where Horses have been 

 overpurged, either from ]mismanagement or the improper compo- 

 sition of the Physic, 



In these two instances the effect upon the Horse and the more 

 urgent symptoms are the same. We may consider that the Physic 

 has been of too rough a kind; or the treatment of the Horse im- 

 proper, if the evacuations have much exceeded the number which 

 have been already mentioned, or if the Purgative effect of the 

 Physic be protracted much beyond the period of twenty-four 

 houi-s. 



In such cases the animal betrays excessive sickness, his eye is 



- dull and languid, his breathing is hurried, he continues to purge 



fiequently without exercise^ and obstinately refuses food of eveiy 



