102 PHYSICKING. 



soaked or boiled ground gram may be added to 

 each mash. Good walking exercise morning and 

 evening, but no wet green grass, and no wash- 

 ing under physic. If they do not operate twelve 

 hours after the last is given, and after you have 

 given a trot, continue them on until they do ; 

 but clyster first, with one ounce of soap and two 

 drachms of aloes in a gallon of warm water, or 

 the horse may be severely over-purged from the 

 effect of the whole taking place at once. 



When calomel is required in combination with 

 alteratives to a greater amount than a drachm, 

 it should be mixed in the four first balls, to 

 prevent any chance of salivation. 



If your horse will not eat bran mash, which 

 is most probably your own fault, do not give 

 laxative alteratives.* 



GENERAL ALTERATIVES. 



Three drachms of black sulphuret of antimony, 

 three drachms of suljihur, two drachms of nitre, 

 and half a drachm of ginger, made into a ball 



' * A one-pound powder-canister once full, piled up, is about 

 equal to a map, or kutcha seer ; but whenever a map or seer 

 of ground gram is mentioned, it does not mean a kutcha seer 



