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By abolishing the solid feeding, which is 

 easily done, since the animal has lost his 

 appetite. Give him to drink, three or four 

 times a day, half a pailful of a decoction of 

 good hay, adding thereto a sprinkling of salt ; 

 or a decoction of wall-wort, with a drachm of 

 nitrate of potash ; or water whitened with 

 bran and flour, or whey, with a little vinegar. 

 If the animal has a tendency to cold, if he 

 coughs, if his breathing is oppressed, give him 

 warm drinks, consisting of an infusion of 

 mallow leaves and borage, or else a light 

 decoction of barley and oats, and cover the 

 animal's body warmly over. 



Now, with respect to purgatives : give the 

 animal, night and morning, according to the 

 effect produced, 6 or 8 ounces of Epsom salts 

 (sulphate of magnesia), or an equal dose of 

 Glauber's salt (sulphate of soda), dissolved 

 in two pints of honey-coloured water; or 

 12 ounces of linseed oil in some warm drink ; 

 or a decoction of senna leaves and prunes, with 

 an ounce of sulphate of soda added thereto. 



We might point out a larger number of 

 purgatives, but we shall desist from so doing. 

 Those which we have just prescribed, not 



