OF FARRIERY. 



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will be found very efficacious in removing 

 the disease : — 



No. 1. 



Take Ground black pepper - ^ ounce. 



Tincture of opium - - 1 do. 



Good ale (warmed) - 1 pint. 



No. 2. 



Take Common gin - - - ^ pint. 



Tincture of opium - 2 ounces. 



Good ale (warmed) - 1 pint. 



If costiveness should be present, give 



No. 3. 



Take Oil of peppermint - - 2 drams. 



Castor oil - - - - 6 ounces. 



Tincture of aloes - - 4 ditto. 



Should the costiveness continue, you must 

 back-rake, and administer warm clysters, 

 with a handful of salt thrown in each, aboi't 

 three quarts at a time, until the bowels are 

 relieved. If you are situated where you can- 

 not immediately call in assistance, most houses 

 have the following in them, which give 



Take Ground black pepper a teaspoonful. 

 Common gin - - 2 P'^t- 



Good warm ale - 



1 do. 



Should the disease continue on the Horse 

 longer than you expected, you must repeat 

 the remedies until relief is obtained. If the 

 clysters should not have the desired effect, 

 take a large onion, peel, and quarter it, and 

 pass it up the rectum, which will speedily 

 stimulate it to action. 



ON TETANUS, OR LOCKED-JAW. 



Tetanus, or locked-jaw, is a violent spas- 

 modic contraction of the muscles, wliich are 



concerned in the elevation of the lower jaw ; 

 and which extends, more or less, to all the 

 muscles destined to perform voluntary motion. 

 This disorder, which may be excited by dif- 

 ferent causes, is much more common in hot 

 climates, than in our own. However, it too 

 frequently occurs amongst us, and happens to 

 be one of great difficulty of cure, especially in 

 consequence of wounds ; and more particu- 

 larly after such injuries of tendons and liga- 

 mentous parts. It is one of the most fatal 

 symptoms which can possibly arise in these 

 cases, and therefore demands the most assidu- 

 ous attention of the veterinary surgeon. 



Tetanic complaints may, from certain 

 causes, occur in any climate that we are 

 acquainted with. These complaints generally 

 affect middle, or aged Horses, more fre- 

 quently than young ones. The causes from 

 whence they proceed, are cold and moisture, 

 applied to the body while it is very warm ; 

 and especially, the sudden vicissitudes of heat 

 and cold ; or the disease may be produced by 

 punctures, lacerations, or other lesions of 

 nerves in any part of the body. There are 

 probably some other causes of this disease ; 

 but they are neither distinctly known, nor 

 well understood. If the disease proceeds 

 from cold, it commonly comes on in a few 

 days after the taking of such cold ; but if 

 it arises from puncture, or other lesion of a 

 nerve, the disease does not come on for many 

 days after the lesion has happen«;«i ; very often 

 when there is neither pain or uneasiness re- 

 maining in the wounded part ; and very fre- 

 quently when the wounded part had been 

 entirely healed up * . The disease sometimes 

 comes on suddenly, to a violent degree ; but 



* See case of fracture of the head, p. 53 



