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ses, are so nearly alike, that few can tell the differ- 

 ence. Uneasiness, groaning, looking back towards 

 his sides, laying down, &c., are sym|)ioms of eilher.— 

 But there is one symptom said to denote bolls that 

 does not accompany cholic or belly-nclir,'ind that is, 

 the horse will be seen to roll up his upper lip, inside 

 out, in evident distress. As soon as these symptoms 

 appear, whether botts or not, the following remedy is 

 recommended as infallible, by many, and we will add 

 a variety equally esteemed by others : 



Remedy, No. 1, for BoitsI — Bleed in the neck, and 

 let the blood be caught in bottles, which should be im- 

 mediately poured down the horse. The bottles, while 

 held to receive the blood, may be immersed in hot 

 water, to prevent coagulation, and to keep it in a warm 

 and liquid state ; the horse should be made to swallow 

 two or three quarts. It is asserted on an experience 

 of thirty years, that this has never failed to give relief. 

 Its operation is thus accounted for: the bolts leave 

 their holds and feed upon the blood, which having 

 been given in sufficieist quantity to physic the horse^ 

 carries them off; and the bleeding allays a!iy fever 

 caused by the attack. 



The first Judge of this county, has succeeded in 

 two or three cases in curing his own horses by simply 

 bleeding them between the second and third wrinkle 

 of the mouth, and letting them swallow the blood as 

 physic for the horse and a bait for the botts. 



Reme'ly No. 2, f )r Botts. — In the morning, upon 

 an empty stomach, let two pounds ot molasses be dis- 

 solved in three pints of new milk, and given ; prevent 

 the horse from taking any food for nearly two hours, 

 then add an ounce and a half of laudanum to about 

 tluee half pints of warm water — after it is given let 

 him be walked about for nearly an hour and a half, 

 then let a dose of strong physic be given, and worked 

 off in the usual way. 



No, 3. — Haifa gallon sweetened milk, and in an 

 hour after, an ounce of calomel. This has been suc- 

 cessful. Dr. Green, of Mass., says the irritation of 

 the botts produces inflammation, and renders a largo 

 bleeding from the neck proper. 



