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and regular feeding) has acquired a tolerable 

 proportion of his natural strength, to put 

 him upon the following gentle course of 

 phjiic. . And it will become more imme- 

 diately necessary, where the horse bears 

 about him remnants of the distemper, either 

 in a gleet from the nose^ rattling \\\ his throat, 

 difiiculty of breathi?ig, or heaving in the 

 Jlanks, 



Take succofrine aloes nine drachms ; 

 Rhubarb, jalap, gum araraoniacura, calomel, and 



ginger, each a drachm; 

 Oil of juniper sixty drops ; 

 Syrup of buckthorn sufficient to make a ball. 



Six clear days or more, if the horse is weak, 

 should be allowed between each dose, aud^ 

 the mode of management regulated by the 

 instructions' given under the article purging. 



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Is a defect in the part of which we last 

 treated, so that the transition from one to 

 the other is both quick and natural ; and 

 sorry I am to acknowledge, that amidst all 

 the dissections and minute investigations that 

 have taken place, no IMPROVEMENTS 



