OF FARRIERY. 



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Take Cape aloes 



Sulphate of iron 

 Gentian 

 Linseed meal 



- - 6 drams. 



- 6 do. 



- 12 do. 



- 12 do. 



Form into a mass, with soft soap, and 

 divide into six balls, 



And give one every second day. 



There is a consolation in this disease that a 

 symptom of danger occurs but seldom, and 

 then principally when Horses take on the dis- 

 ease at grass, and especially in consequence of 

 being only colts, they arc not brought under the 

 eye of the master so often as they otherwise 

 would be ; as it very unfrequently happens 

 that the servant's eye can penetrate so deep 

 as a master's, so that the poor animal is not 

 reported sick, until he is almost dead ; but if 

 the Horse be kept in the stable, the danger 

 generally occurs from neglect, or absolute 

 cruelty, in riding or driving to extremity. When 

 the disease has commenced its course, so as to 

 produce fever, and consequent inflammation, 

 as before observed, it generally terminates in 

 glanders ; consequently, the greatest care to 

 cleanliness is of the highest importance, such 

 as sponging the nostrils well out every 

 morning and evening, and be careful to keep 

 your Horse warm. 



ON VIVES. 



The disease of vives (if it may be called 

 one), is common to all Horses, and of all ages, 

 and at all times of the year. Why the term 

 vives arose, I am not able to ascertain ; but as 

 it is generally known by that term, it would 

 be folly to change it in a general work of this 

 kind, until a few more years has passed 

 away. 



Vives, then, is an injlammation and enlarge- 

 uient of the parotid glands, situated and com- 



mencing at the base of the ear, and continued 

 down to the angle of the jaw. This disease 

 is by old farrier.s called bastard strangles ; but 

 this is an error, for they have no affinity to 

 strangles in any way ; they never suppurate, 

 but they occasion great pain to the Horse 

 whilst eating, in consequence of the action of 

 the jaw continually pressing on the enlarged 

 gland. 



These sweUings at times become so fixed, 

 that cough and considerable irritation is pro- 

 duced about the anterior part of the epiglotis 

 (the part that covers the wind-pipe in the act 

 of swallowing, to prevent food passing down 

 that tube), and when food comes in contact 

 with it, cough is almost sure to take place ; 

 and the irritation in consequence so great, that 

 the Horse will cough repeatedly, with that 

 violence, that you would imagine the rupture 

 of some vital part must be the consequence. 



In this disease never apply stimulants in 

 order to promote a discharge ; for, if you do, 

 the situation being so prominent, and always 

 in view, and if an ichorous discharge, which 

 frequently occurs from a gland, you leave a 

 blemish which will greatly lessen the value 

 of the Horse ; but the method I have found 

 always best, was to apply to enlarged glands, 

 the following : 



Take Ammonia 

 Olive oil 



- 1 oz. 



- 4 do. 



Rub about two table-spoonsful of the liniment 

 on each gland, morning and night, and 



Take Cape aloes - - 6 drams. 

 Ginger - - 1 do. 



Form into a ball with soap. 



And give, or here I perhaps best may say, at- 

 tempt to give, for if the Horse's throat shouid 



