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(well clothed) walked out for half an hour at 

 leaft. Frequent fupplies of warm water muft 

 be given, and two other mafhes at their pro- 

 per times ; b y no means omitting to take him 

 out, and walk him gently twice or thrice in 

 the courfe of the day. But, as purgatives 

 adminiftered to quadrupeds of this defcription 

 cannot, from the great continuation of the 

 intefrinal canal, be expe6Led to commence 

 their operation in lefs than twenty-four hours, 

 no hurrying or forcing methods muft" be taken 

 to agitate the animal, or produce preternatural 

 eiFeds. So foon as the medicine begins to 

 operate kindly and patiently, afliil the work 

 by the means before mentioned, at Hated 

 periods, or at fach times as the appetite w^ill 

 permit them to be taken ; continuing the 

 mafhes no longer than the phyfic is faid to be 

 fet, or (in other words) the excrements become 

 firm, and refume their original form. 



Indeed the management of horfes, during a 

 courfe of phyfic, is at prefent fo well under- 

 ftood, that little more need be added upon 

 that fabjed: ; excepting the very neceflary pre- 

 caution to avoid cold during thefe operations, 

 by a proper attention to the variations of the 



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