MOON EYES. 103 



The causes that may induce this disease, are, a 

 redundancy of blood in the system, which the 

 horse is very subject to at this period; want of 

 sufficient exercise, and confinement in dark and 

 ill-ventilated stables ; violent and excessive exer- 

 tions, as in breaking, &c. which derange the whole 

 system, and increase the flow of blood to the head ; 

 all these causes will excite the disease, if there is a 

 predisposition to it in the constitution of the horse. 



The horse must first be bled, his eyes should 

 then be bathed three or four times a day with the 

 eye-water (No. 70, p. 98), and mashes of scalded 

 bran be given twice a day for two or three days : 

 then give him the following ball. 



(RECIPE, No. 75.) 



Take — Tartarised antimony (emetic tartar) one drachm: 

 White antimonial powder, one drachm ; 

 Calomel, half a drachm ; 

 Castile soap, two drachms : 

 Make them into a ball, and give it to tlie horse 



at night, and the following piu'ge next 



morning. 



(RECIPE, No. 76.) 

 Take — ^Barbadoes aloes, six or seven drachms ; 

 Castile soap, two drachms ; 

 Ginger, in powder, half an ounce; 

 Oil of juniper, half a drachm ; 

 Nitre, two drachms : 

 Make them into a ball with syrup of buckthorn. 



