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lund though offered to him in the most inviting- form. Tenesmua 

 toOj frequently attends the symptoms which have been enumerated, 

 as the animal may sometimes be observed to strain violently^ witliout 

 evacuating much Foeces. 



Occasionally too^ there is voided along with the Foeces, a sub- 

 stance of a fatty stringy appearance, which has obtained the name 

 of Molten Grease ; and is to this day considered by Farriers and 

 other unscientific persons, as the fat of the body, which has by some 

 means or other, (but they do not tell us how) found its way into tho 

 bowels, and is thus thrown off with their contents. 



But the plain and simple explanation of this phoenomenon is, that 

 it arises from inflammation of the mucous membrane of the bowels^ 

 and is furnished by the coagulabje lymph of the blood. This por- 

 tion of the blood it is, which exhibits the appearance of buff or 

 size in blood newly drawn, and furnishes an almost infallible cri- 

 terion of the presence of inflammation. 



When this appearance is exhibited, along with very frequent 

 long-continued Purging, it adds considerably to the difficulty of the 

 treatment and the embarrassment of the Practitioner, inasmuch as 

 it precludes the safe administration of such astringent or tonic Medi- 

 cines, as we might otherwise have recourse to with advantage. If, 

 therefore, the symptoms that I have described, exist without any, or but 

 little of this fatty stringy substance called Molten Grease mixed with 

 the Foeces, the Horse may get a drink made by boiling for fivs 

 minutes in a pint of Port Wine, one ounce of fine Cinnamon bruised, 

 (not Cassia) to which may be added a table spoonful of Laudanum. 

 This drink may be repeated in six or eight hours, provided the 

 symptoms continue to be urgent. A Glyster should be injected 



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