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will find a dead horse. In these cases it is always 

 advisable to give clysters which should be repeated 

 every half-hour, until the bowels operate ; the best 

 and handiest clyster is composed of oatmeal gruel, three 

 quarts, common salt three ounces, and olive oil half-a- 

 pint. Some old writers recommend blowing cayenne up 

 the nostrils, as well as powdered bark and spices, given 

 internally, and blisters behind the ears ; but these are 

 perfectly useless, indeed, the former are perfectly 

 ridiculous. Should the horse sufficiently recover to 

 be able to take food, boiled barley, scalded bran, 

 oatmeal, and lukewarm water may be given until he 

 has recovered enough to eat hay, when the hay should 

 be given in small quantities and of the best quality. 

 After the horse has been subjected to the scouring-out 

 principle, it is necessary to give medicine to give a tone 

 again to the stomach, and set the digestive organs 

 performing their offices ; for this purpose the following 

 will be given with advantage — lenetive electuary four 

 ounces, cream of tartar four ounces, purified nitre two 

 drachms, treacle two ounces, to be dissolved in hot ale, 

 and given the first thing in the morning in a tepid state. 

 This may be repeated two or three times, allowing two 

 or three days to elapse between them. If the horse 

 after this should not feed well, it may be necessary to 

 give tonic medicine, and for this purpose obtain half a 

 dozen tonic balls. I said in an early page of this work 

 that I had placed a valuable receipt for tonic balls in the 

 hands of Messrs. Perks and Llewellyn, chemists, Hitchin, 

 which they will supply with full instructions, and they 

 will be found all that are required to perfect a cure. 



