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boiled oorucl and sheeps' heads, — try everything* 

 to induce him to eat the sheeps' heads, or in 

 default, any strong meat broth, — and the more 

 black salt he will willingly eat with his grain 

 and bran mash the better. 



If the horse is gross, and unable to take much 

 exercise, from the largeness of the sores or swell- 

 ing of the limbs, still liberal (not over) feeding 

 on this kind of diet cannot be dispensed with : 

 you must muzzle occasionally at night. Lucern 

 and green grass, cut the day before, I am also 

 friendly to in small quantities. Keeping the 

 horse in a dry loose stall, well littered at night- 

 time, is of course to be remembered, and as 

 much walking, or gentle trotting exercise should 

 be given, morning and evening, as possible, for 

 w^hich you may as well take off the shoes. The 

 external application for the sores (and to apply 

 which, you should endeavour to obtain the as- 

 sistance of a clever native farrier) is the native 

 poultice : — 



Seem ke putta, as much as the size of an o^gg. 

 Chitrawal ke putta, ditto. 



Vikmar, as much as two peas, or two gram. 

 Fulkeree, a quarter of a rupee weight. 



When the sores are small, four tea-spoonsful 

 of the koorkum-ketail, half a tea-spoonful of 



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