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should be given : — Barbacloes aloes five drachms, cream 

 of tartar half an ounce, powdered ginger one drachm, 

 balsam copaiba thirty drops, to be formed into a ball. 

 When this has operated, the following should be given 

 once a day until the urine has assumed its natural 

 colour : — Peruvian bark half an ounce, prepared kali two 

 drachms, antimonial powder half an ounce, nitre in 

 powder one ounce, balsam of copaiba a quarter of an 

 ounce ; let the above be well powdered and given in 

 linseed gruel, three ounces of linseed boiled in half a 

 gallon of water until it is reduced to three pints. This 

 treatment will generally cure this complaint in ten 

 days. 



WORMS. 

 Another tiling which greatly troubles the horse 

 and its owner is worms in the intestines. A variety 

 of worms inhabit the intestines of horses, and when 

 they become numerous, often prove injurious to the 

 constitution. Although some writers say that they 

 are not of much consequence unless they are numerous, 

 yet the author's humble opinion is that an empty house 

 is better than a bad tenant, and he would recommend 

 that the sooner they are expelled the better. If 

 there are only a few settlers they suon gather around 

 them a numerous progeny, for where a single pair 

 exist they will be like Paddy's bugs, become married 

 and have large families, and in a short time they 

 become a numerous colony. It is perfectly true that 

 by what means they first effect a lodgment in the 

 animal system is a problem yet to be solved, but it is 

 equally true that naturalists have detected that these 

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