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mirably adapted, as they generally stimulate 

 and gradually promote the secretions, carry- 

 ing off, by the mildness of their operation, 

 those slua^ish viscidities that found die 

 oriiJjin of disease. It is also a circumstance 

 of material consolation to the owner, that 

 during this course, the horse is perfectly 

 adeqnate to his ordinary employment, free 

 from the restraint he must be consequently 

 laid under by the usual purging medicines ; 

 and the least doubt need not be entertained 

 but such seasonable admmistration will ob- 

 literate the foundation of much disquietude 

 and trouble. 



The last subject we shall enlarge upon of 

 this kind is very frequently both dangerous 

 and alarming, being in general caused more 

 by the inexperience ox' 'indiscretions of boi/s, 

 neglect of servants, or want of knowledge in 

 the master, than any other compiaint in the 

 long list of diseases to which the horse is in- 

 cident. Experience and accurate observa^ 

 tion fully justify the declaration that nineteen 

 out of every txventy, attacked with the fiacu- 

 lent cholic, or fret, become so from the pre- 

 vious and uncertain quantity of water incon- 



