GRIPES. 223 



of finely-grated ginger, six draclims of anise- 

 seed, and three ounces of ghoor, is, after all, 

 the most grateful cure : and one that is generally 

 at hand. In giving it, you may omit the 

 little point of mistaken politeness, you so gene- 

 rously offer to your friend at dinner, begging 

 him " not to wait," but to swallow it down, fixed 

 air and all, the instant it is poured out. You 

 are now only treating the inside of a horse, 

 and that under disease, which, having too much 

 wind already there, will not be cured by another 

 quart being thrust down his gullet. Pour the 

 beer into a clean cooking-pot ; then put in the 

 ginger, anise°seed, and ghoor, and stir it round 

 whilst on the fire warming : in this way the 

 stimulants become properly incorporated with 

 the beer. 



CLASS III. 



COLD. 



A thorough draught, or letting a horse stand 

 still when heated by exercise, are almost as 

 frequent causes of cold in this country as in 

 England. Stripping oif the jhool in the cold 



