mnce. In v/hatever shape the horse is attacked with 

 those disorders, the first and most obvious duty is the 

 employment of clysters, to be repeated at short inter- 

 vals, with this single variation, viz : in cases of relax- 

 ation, where the animal is nlready purged, the clyster 

 is then to consist of simple water gruel only ; but 

 when the patieni's bowels are overloaded with harden- 

 ed dung, the addition of salts, as prescribed in page 

 29, will be found most effeclual. In the absence of 

 salts, a? no time is to be lost, four or five ounces of 

 common salt may be employed. Remove the dung 

 also with the hand, called back-raking ; and give the 

 laxative drench prescribed on page 29, or the simple 

 salad or castor oil in default thereof. 



In ordinary cases, when the attack is not of the 

 most violent kind of either description of cholic, that 

 is to say, when neither purging nor constipation pre- 

 vail extremely, let the following be given : 



CHOLIC DRENCH. — Epsom Salts, 4 or 5 ounces; Castile soap, 

 sliced, 2 ounces. Dissolve these in a pint of ale, and. add oil of ju- 

 niper, 2 drachms, and Venice turpentine, 2 ounces. Mix well to- 

 gether, and give it wai'm. 



Repeat the same in four or five hours, and if the 

 symptoms do not visibly abnte, repeat once more. — 

 Tincture of opium is sometimes substituted for the 

 turpentine, to the amount of 4 drachms, but it is ren- 

 dered exceedingly nauseous thereby, and should be 

 given deliberately ; opium is, moreover, least proper 

 when a tendency to costiveness is discovered to exist. 



COLIC DRENCH, No. 2.— Tincture of opium, 2 drachms; oil 

 of juni?3er, 2 drachms; spirit of nitrous ether, 1 ounce; tincture of 

 benzoin, 4 drachms; aromatic spirit of ammonia, 3 drachms. 



Mix together, and preserve the same in a bottle, and 

 give in a pint of warm peppermint water. Repeat it 

 in three or four hours. 



When the case is not very alarming, a neater man- 

 ner of giving opium, in the form of a ball, is best, 

 viz : 4 drachms ossafcEtida, and 4 drachms ojiium — 

 make into lour balls with liquorice powder and syrup, 

 and give one every two honrs. The balls may be 

 given along with the oily laxative at page 29 ; imme- 

 diately preceding it, or before it has operated- These 

 t»alls are very serviceable to travellers on their jour- 

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