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If the kidneys — the stradling of the hind 

 legs, and shrinking on pressing the loins. 



If the feet — they are hot, instead of cold; 

 the muzzle often resting on them when lying 

 down, and the great disinclination to stand. 



The note at the bottom of the page, how- 

 ever, ought to serve as a guide and warning, 

 to convince yourself that inflammation really 

 does exist in some part before you commence 

 to cure.* 



* A horse that had been for some months having only very 

 gentle exercise^, was taken out and galloped after a hog. 

 On return to his stall, he immediately lay down. The 

 alarmed master, without feeling the pulse or asking any 

 body's opinion, took five quarts of blood. The poor animal 

 not being much refreshed by this, a friend recommended 

 he should be clystered and physicked. The horse, after 

 this, getting more " gureeb" still, they both allowed that it 

 was a most extraordinary case, but that, as he appeared so 

 near dead, bleeding again could not do harm, if it did not 

 do good. At this stage, as I lived close by, my advice 

 was solicited. I had seen the horse on his first return ; his 

 case was plain enough — a little overgalloped when not in 

 wind, and brought home hot. Out of pity for the poor 

 brute, I undertook to do all I could, saying, I had a 

 bottle of Elixir lately sent me from London, just adapted 

 for these obscure cases. I then mixed some sawdust, red- 

 ink, and blue-paint, in a quart of sour claret for the master 

 to smell at, and putting the sufferer, half-dead from treat- 

 ment, into a loose open stall, with a large soft bed, washed 

 his mouth out with the Elixir of warm water, and left 



