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scalded, and mixed with a bran-mash every night, or scalded malt 

 given in equal quantities with the corn; or in the springtime, 

 clover or lucerne, will often do more than medicine. Give clean 

 hay, free of dust. This together with proper attention and feeding 

 of the horse will soon put nim in condition. 



2. The following will be found good for horses generally 

 when out of condition. One gallon wood-ashes, three pounds salt, 

 one pound sulphur, one pound rosin. Mix, dampen, put in trough 

 and feed. This should be kept in the trough at all times, or where 

 a horse can get to it, whether he be healthy or not. 



3. Take two ounces of finely pulverized gentian-root, Afri- 

 can ginger and licorice-powder, one ounce finely pulverized iodide 

 of potassa and four drachms of tartar emetic; incorporate these 

 materials well together in a mortar; then add half a pound of 

 bruised linseed-meal; mix all thoroughly together again. Dose of 

 the powder, one large tablespoonful, morning and evening, incor- 

 porated well through a mash composed of equal parts of bran and 

 oats, properly salted. This is an excellent " Condition Powder " 

 under all circumstances. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS. 



Symptoms The indications of this disease and colic are 

 very nearly the same yet there is one marked difference by which 

 one can almost always determine. In colic there are frequent 

 remissions of pain, while in this, when inflammation has fairly set 

 in, there is little or no abatement of symptoms. The patient man- 

 ifests tenderness or pain upon the slightest pressure on the walls of 

 the abdomen. The belly is tense and drawn toward the hips. . On 

 moving, the horse often groans, and looks towards the flanks. 

 When lying down he stretches at full length, throws back his head 

 and paws with the fore feet. Sometimes he sweats profusely on 

 the flanks and neck, champs or grinds the teeth, the nostrils are 

 dilated and breathing hurried; the urine passes involuntarily, and 

 the feces are hard and often covered with mucus; the eyes art 

 bright and glassy, and the pupils are dilated, and in the last stages 

 of fatal cases, cold sweat stands on the body, occasionally tremors 

 get in, the limbs, ears, and lips feel cold and clammy, and death 

 soon occurs. 



Remedies 1. When satisfied that the case is inflammation, 



've a drench of one ounce of common salt in a pint of warm water, 

 ive also frequent injections of three quarts of warm water with a 

 handful of salt, until the bowels are relieved of the hardened feces 

 give also freely of warm water. Hot water in flannel bandages, 

 applied to abdomen and frequently changed, will work wonders. 

 When great pain is manifested, warm fomentations of hops will be 

 of great benefit. 



