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up by absorption. To facilitate this, cold lotions should be 

 frequently and plentifully applied, such as goulard, vinegar, 

 or brine. If these fail, and ulcers and steadfasts appear, 

 then a gentle blister should be applied, which generally 

 has the effect of removing them from their seats ; after 

 which the wound must be dressed with Friar's Balsam, or 

 Turner's Cerate, or, where these cannot readily be pro- 

 cured, with a mixture of bees'-wax and oil in equal pro- 

 portions. 



Saddle-galls are generally cured with facility by an 

 application of strong brine, with the addition of tincture of 

 myrrh, in the proportion of a fourth part to three parts of 

 brine. 



We have frequently been disgusted with the unfeeling 

 cruelty of some thoughtless persons riding their, horses day 

 after day, with large sores under the saddle. Such indi- 

 viduals but ill deserve to be the possessors of horses. 



CHAPTER IV. 



DISEASES OF THE ABDOMEN AND INTESTINES. 



The complaints of the abdomen and bowels in horses are 

 pretty numerous, and some of them attended with most 

 serious consequences. In most of them the groom or horse- 

 keeper ought to be extremely vigilant, and must watch 

 their progress narrowly. Some are slow in their effects, 

 while others are so rapid, that before proper remedies are 

 applied the disease will have gained such an ascendancy that 

 ministrations are of no avail. We would particularly allude 

 to two complaints which are frequently mistaken for one 



