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little blood, as a preventive when inflammation 

 is coming on : this will render the disease very 

 confused to you, whatever may be the case with a 

 professional man. Wait an hour or so, until the 

 disease fairly shows itself; the symptoms will 

 then be fully developed, and you will know what 

 part is attacked; and one full bleeding at the 

 proper time, with the other treatment steadily 

 pursued, will generally make a safe and speedy 

 cure. 



After an attack of inflammation of any vital 

 part, it will take a fortnight, and often a 

 month, before the horse can be again mounted. 

 Boiled food ; a little sweetened gram flour gruel 

 in the morning before the first watering-time, and 

 green grass, lucern, or carrots, are always needed 

 to recruit the strength; but nothing is more 

 dangerous than surfeiting with any kind of food 

 after these attacks, in order to raise the con- 

 dition quickly. Starvation, that is, as far as 

 keeping the horse hungry, is the only safe sys- 

 tem for ten days after recovery : the muzzle 

 must be used at night if the appetite increases 

 too quickly ; but if, on the contrary, the ap- 

 petite should flag, and the spirits not revive 

 in that time, the beer tonic, p. 148, should be 

 immediately resorted to ; and even if the recovery 

 is perfect, still, after ten days or so, a few mild 



