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restore the parts to an healthy state as soon as 

 possible, and tFiis you can generally do by 

 giving the following : 



Take Catechu - - - 3 drams. 



Opium - - - 1 do 



Alum - - - 2 do. 



Aloes, Barbadoes - 1 do. 



Form into a ball with honey or 

 treacle. 



Give one morning and night. Many persons 

 apply hot sheep-skins to the loins, but I never 

 saw much good effect arise from their appli- 

 cation ; but you will find great benefit in 

 applying as under to the Horse's loins '. 



Take Liquor of ammonia - 2 ounces. 

 Olive oil _ - - 2 do. 



Rub this on the Horse's loins, morning and 

 night. Mix, and when applied, shake the 

 bottle well. If the Horse be in high condition, 

 take three or four quarts of blood from him, 

 and keep him warm. 



OF STRANGUARY, OR OBSTRUC- 

 TION OF URINE. 



Strangiiary is an obstruction, or temporary 

 suppression of urine, and may arise from dif- 

 ferent causes ; for, as before observed, the 

 variety of parts appropriated to the secretion 

 and excretion of urine are so numerous, as to 

 render the exact cause of disease a matter of 

 ambiguity and uncertainty, even by good 

 judges. Stranguary, sometimes is a concomi- 

 tant to the inflammatory cholic, and is then 

 the effect of pressure from the indurated 

 faeces, or hardened dung, retained in the 

 rectum or last gut. When it does not arise 

 from this cause, it may proceed from inflam- 

 mation of the kidneys themselves, from ulce- 

 ration, spasms upon any particular part, on 



inflammation of the neck, or the bladder 

 itself. 



When it is the consequence of cholic, and 

 proceeds only from that original cause, it may 

 be considered merely symptomatic, and will 

 be entirely subdued with the first complaint. 

 The signs of this suppression are too palpable 

 to be mistaken; the Horse is in an almost 

 perpetual position to stale, without effect, 

 indicating by action and attitude, the expecta- 

 tion of an unusual discharge ; when, after 

 frequent straining, the effort terminates in a 

 groan of seeming disappointment. The Horse 

 does not in general appear in acute pain, but 

 seems full in the flank, somewhat dejected, 

 and to a minute observer, seems not only con- 

 scious of his inability, but to supplicate assist- 

 ance and relief 



The most certain means of affording relief 

 to the Horse, is to abstract about three or four 

 quarts of blood, in order to relax the parts ; 

 then introduce the hand up the rectum, and 

 remove all hardened dung *, then throw up 

 an emollient clister, composed as follows : 



Thin gruel - 

 Common salt 



- 3 pints. 



- 3 table spoonsful. 



Let this be injected moderately warm, and 

 retained in the body as long as possible, by 

 pressing the tail down against the fundament. 

 If the bleeding and glisters have not had the 

 desired effect in a moderate time, repeat the 

 glister, and give 



Camphor - - - 2 drams. 

 Nitre - - - 1 oz. 



Form into a ball with treacle, 



And give as soon as possible. 

 ] * This IS called by the old farriers back-raktng. 



