COSTIVENESS IX COLTS. 101 



Take — Powdered rhubarb 40 trains. 



Powdered yellow-root 40 o-rains. 



Salts of tartar ; GO grains'. 



I Essence of peppermint 1 ounce. 



Tincture of prickly -ash berries 1 ounce. 



Tincture of opium X ounce! 



Thin gruel 1 pj^t 



Mix, and give four table-spoonfuls to the colt as a drench, every three hours. 



Milk the mare, so that the colt will get only enough milk to 

 keep him up. Strong hay tea is good to nourish him, given 

 frequently as a drench. 



COSTIVENESS. 



Costiveness hardly deserves to be called a disease, but it 

 may be symptomatic of some lurking disease in the system. 

 It may be so obstinate as to require special treatment 



Treatment.— The first thing to be done is to give a physic 

 to open the bowels. These medicines may be given with a 

 view of restoring the bowels to a healthy action. For a 

 physic, give one ounce of aloes and a table-spoonful of o-ino-er 

 in a pint of warm water. Feed bran, scalded, before and after 

 giving the physic. To restore the healthy action of the bow- 

 els, give one of the "condition powders," recommended in an- 

 other part of this work. 



COSTIVENESS IN COLTS. 



This is quite a common ailment in young colts, but is not 

 generally dangerous. It is known by the colt not havino- an 

 operation on its bowels for a considerable time. It may be ow- 

 ing to derangement of the mother's system. See that her 

 health IS properly attended to. A physic given the dam will 

 open he colts bowels. But it is not always prudent to wait 

 this .slow process. Take a piece of Castile or common bar-soap, 

 of sufficient size to make a plug about two inches long, and as 

 thick as the little finger; moisten it, and gently force it into the 



