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will be Ibund in hardened focces, in addition to the be- 

 forementioned remedies, give a purgative clyster of 6 

 or 7 quarts of water gruel, with an ounce of salt to 

 e-ach quart. Let it be applied assidiously, and some 

 assistance given to bring away the first hard foeces 

 that appear ; the remainder of the dung will come 

 na.urally. See further under the head of costiveness. 



Caster Oil, a pint or more, will open the canal par- 

 tially only ; but if the bowels yield not to the purgative 

 balls, other means must be resorted to, tho' I should 

 never think of having recourse to oil in the first in- 

 stances. Although the constipation or obstruction be 

 obstinate, yet very strong diuretic purgatives are inel- 

 igible, as they might kill the animal, or at least injure 

 llie intestines materially. 



The dung and urine are always good indications of 

 the state of the body ; if the former fail, lever is the 

 cause ; it subtracts also from the quantity of the urine, 

 and if he stale small qunnties at short intervals, some 

 internal inflammation has taken place. In fever, the 

 tongue and mouth become drier than ordinary ; and 

 if any saliva be secreted, it is tough and ropy. These 

 symptoms as well as the pulse are to be watched atten- 

 tively; & after you have succeeded in thus repelling the 

 attack of the fever, and the heat and acceleration 

 of the pulse properly reduced, the cure is but half com- 

 pleted. The tone of the patient's stomach and the 

 whole digestive process require restoration, and this 

 with a careful hand, that the bowels be not again over- 

 loaded ; because a second attack would be more diffi- 

 cult than the first; for the bowels have partly lost 

 their function of expelling their contents, through the 

 violence of the disease, if not by the harsh action of 

 the remedies employed. Hardy working horses, of 

 course, recover their appetite qs soon as the fever 

 abates; and no further care is required for such, than 

 an occasionnl laxative or purgative, according to the 

 amount of obstruction. The ball prescribed before 

 may be given at intervals with fever powders; and 

 subsequently, the fever drink prescribed below for all 

 other descriptions of the horse recovering from fever. 

 This is a good cool stomachic, and restores the appe- 

 tite, at the same time that the disposition to the return 



