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fication of the exp^c'riit foal, which is al- 

 ways ill some ^' .;., -e obstructed, if not to- 

 taily suppressed, by the least indispoiiitionof 

 tiie dam. 



The mash may be repeated twice every 

 day, with pleaty of the best hay, and occa- 

 sional supplies of the water before-men- 

 tioned, till her recovery is sufficiently esta- 

 blished, a.^l the weather proportionably 

 calm for her enlargement, in the way above 

 described, had no dirlicuity intervened. 

 Should the same lassitude and dejection con- 

 tinue more than four-and-t\venty hours 

 after these methods have been adopted, 

 bring into immediate use a dozen of the 

 cordial pectoral balls from ** The Gentle- 

 man*s Stable Directory, Vol. I.'* and let one 

 be given every night and morning in its pre- 

 pared state, or dissolved in half a pint of 

 gruel, and administered as a drink, or incor- 

 porated with each mash at the stated pe- 

 riods, till the whole eire taken; continuing 

 the aids of mashes^ icarm water, nursingy 

 2ind clothing (if symptoms of great cold 

 appear), till every appearance of com- 



