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0f fever is kept down ; if Ibund of marked service^ 

 the doses may be repeated to three or four times a day 

 for a week. 



Fever Powders, No. 1. 

 I'owclor nitre, 1 ounce; emetic tartai*, 2 drachms. 

 IMix, for one close. 



No. 2. — Powdei-ed nitre, 6 drachms ; cam]ihor, 2 drachms ; calx 

 of antimony, 11-2 drachm. Mix. 

 Give these powders in his food. 



Fever Drink. 



Cream of tartar, 1 ounce; turmeric, 1 ounce; diapente, 1 ounce. 

 Mix in powder and add to a pint of warm gniel. To be given once 

 or twice a day. 



LOW FEVER. 



Cause. — Of low fever, are nearly the same as in- 

 flammatory fever. The difference between the two 

 arises from the condition of the horse at the time of 

 the attack. As inflammatory fever is more preva- 

 lent in the spring and summer, owing to the high con- 

 dition of most horses when first attacked, so does low 

 fever, or irritation of the animal system of a horse 

 in low condition, mostly prevail in autumn and win- 

 ter. We ascribe the latter in a great measure to the 

 debility or weakness brought on by the shedding his 

 coat, when the autumnal slorms set in. Being then 

 much exhausted by the heat of the summer, he sweats 

 profusely on the least exercise ; then his coat becomes 

 dry and husky when at rest, and his skin sticks tight 

 to his ribs, slightly resembling hidebound. The an- 

 imal having lost much of his natural covering, and 

 no care being taken to palliate this loss, he is more 

 liable to catch cold if exposed and still pushed in his 

 work. If not relieved from its severity, coach horses 

 in particular become unserviceable in great numbers ; 

 and too often it happens, that such knocked-up hor- 

 ses are considered done over, and the owner sells off; 

 whereas experience has shown that a nourishing re- 

 gimen would restore them to vigor. The serous or 

 water part of the blood having been drained cfl' by 

 the violent perspiration they were exposed to by their 

 sum.mer work, the muscular fibres become too rigid, 

 and the blood too thick ior circulation in the finer ves- 

 sels ; it therefore remains rioting in the larger ones, 

 di'jtonding their capacity and increasing irritation. — 



