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Yelloavs. In cattle, this disease is called the overflowings 

 of the gall ; in horses it is called the yellows, or jaundice. 

 This disease is known by the yellowness of the eyes, and of 

 the inside of the mouth; the animal becomes dull and refuses 

 to eat. His urine is voided with difficulty, and looks red like 

 blood, after it has lain sometime : the off side of the belly is 

 sometimes hard and distended. First bleed plentifully, and 

 (five the lasative clyster, as horses having this disorder arg 

 usually costive, and the next day give him a purge of an ounce 

 and a half of cream of tartar, half an ounce of castile soap, and 

 ten drachms of saccobine aloes. Repeat this two or three 

 times, giving intermediately the following balls and drink f 

 Take ethiop mineral, half an ounce; mellepedes, the same 

 quantity ; castile soap, one ounce ; make this into a ball, and 

 give one every day, and wash it down with a pint of this de- 

 coction : Take madder root and tumerick, of each four ounces ; 

 burdock root sliced, half a pound ; monks rhubarb, four oun- 

 ces ; boil the whole in a gallon of forge water down to three 

 quarts ; strain it off and sweeten it with honey. Balls of cas- 

 tile soap and tumerick may also be given for this purpose, 

 three or four ounces a day, and will in most cases succeed in 

 effecting a cure. By these means the disorder generally 

 abates in a week, which may be seen in the alteration of the 

 horse's eyes and mouth ; but the medicine must be continued 

 till the yellowness is removed. Should the disorder prove ob- 

 stinate, more potent medicine must be tried; viz. mercurial 

 physic, repeated two or three times at proper intervals, and 

 then the following balls : Take salt of tartar, two ounces ; cen- 

 nabar of antimony, four ounces ; live mellepedes, and filings of 

 steel, of each four ounces ; castile soap, half a pound ; make 

 them into balls of the size of hen's eggs, and give one of thena 

 night and morning, with a pint of the above drink. On the re- 

 covery of the horse, give him two or three mild purges ; and if 

 he be full and fat, put in a rowel. 



There are some other diseases incident to horses, which 

 must not be noticed in this short treatise ; and perhaps it is not 

 necessary, when it is considered that good keeping and proper 

 management is almost a general antidote against all diseases. 



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