126 MOLTEN-GREASE, OR DYSENTERY. 



when the disease has proceeded any length, which 

 is formed in an adventitious manner, from the 

 effused coagulable lymph that the inflammation 

 gives rise to : this has sometimes been mistaken 

 for a part of the intestines. The horse soon 

 loses his flesh, and, in case he survives, generally 

 becomes hidebound, with swelled legs, which often 

 continue for a long time ; and, without proper care 

 and treatment, the disease may terminate in the 

 farcy, or glanders. 



Cure. — First, bleed to the quantity of two or 

 three quarts, or more, according to his size, strength, 

 and the urgency of the symptoms ; and give the 

 following ball as soon as it can be got ready, and 

 in two hours after the purgative drink. 



(RECIPE, No. 89.) 



Compound Mercurial Ball. 



Take — Calomel, and camphor, of each one drachm ; 

 Castile soap, two drachms : 

 Beat them into a ball. 



In two hours after give the following purgative. 



