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utterly prostrated the frame, we next shall 

 have to sustain the sick animal by giving him 

 decoctions of meat with sea-salt, or sulphate ot 

 iron added to it, or a light broth, made with 

 meat and bread. 



Herbivorous animals, put upon a carnivorous 

 diet, would not generally endure it, of course ; 

 but some of them rather incline to unctuous 

 beverages, and even to cooked or raw meat. 

 All men know that certain horse trainers give 

 race-horses a small portion of meat, especially 

 when the races are coming on, in order to 

 increase their mettle and strength. 



We remember a sheep, which we saw at the 

 Ecole d'Alfort, during our studies of compa- 

 rative pathology and the cutaneous diseases 

 of domestic animals, which manifested a great 

 liking for meat, and even eat it ravenously 

 like a glutton. 



In convalescence, the animal must be sent 

 into the open air, in some fold enclosed 

 with bars ; he must be taken every day to 

 pasture, each day increasing the time he is 

 allowed to feed, and gradually he will be left 

 to return to his usual regimen. But still it 



