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So foon therefore as they are fufpedled, or at 

 leaft fo foon as they are afoertained, to have 

 taken poffeffion, it will be prudent to prevent 

 a horfe being hurt in appetite, reduced in flefh, 

 or altered in condition (by their conflantly 

 preying upon the internal coat of the ftomach, 

 and injuring thofe minute paffages through 

 which the chyle or nutritive parts of the ali- 

 ment is conveyed into the circulation, for the 

 general fupport of the frame), to proceed upon 

 fome one of the following courfes without 

 delay. 



Prepare your horfe for the courfe of phyfic 

 by the inftrudlions giving under that head, 

 page 35 ; and let your dofe be adapted to the 

 ftrength, fize, and condition of your fubjed, 

 by thefe rules : if the horfe is thorough bred, 

 and delicate in ihape and make. 



To the purging ball, No. i, add calomel one drachni 

 and a half. 



If the horfe is beyond this pitch of delicacy, 

 ftronger in make, and more entitled to the 

 appellation of hunter, fhewing fome propor- 

 tion of BLOop, 



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