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In difficult and alarming cases, recourse 

 must alv/ays be had to the diiferent prescrip- 

 tions introduced under their proper classes, 

 varying^ increasing^ and diminishing, the articles 

 or proportions, according to the state of 

 symptoms or disease for which they are pre- 

 scribed. Upon a horse's improvement, every 

 ^ign in food, xcater, ease, and rest, is so evi- 

 dently calculated to give ample proof of 

 speedy recovery, that any recital of circum- 

 stances so readily distinguished would be en- 

 tirely superfluous. Therefore naturally con- 

 cluding every intelligent observer will plainly 

 perceive, when his horse is getting out of 

 danger, how sooji medicine is unnecessary, 

 and when perfectly recovered, I consider it 

 only necessary to observe, where the distem- 

 per has been violent, and the inflammatory 

 symptoms ran high, so as to leave any per- 

 ceptible taint upon either eyes or lungs, in a 

 heaviness upon the first, or an oppression, 

 upon the latter, a course of mild purgatives 

 selected from the purging balls, (No. 1, or 2,) 

 p. 36, will be very necessary and advanta- 

 geous; letting it be clearly understood, that 

 no such plan is to be adopted if the termina- 

 I'ionofthe disorder should happen in the 



