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Two hours afterwards give the following purgative, in the 



form of a ball : — 



Barbadoes aloes . . 5 drachms, 

 Castile soap . . . 1^ drachm, 

 Oil of caraways . . S drops. 



Also use fomentations, and in most instances the swelling 



will subside as rapidly as it appeared. 



SWELLING FROM INACTIVITY. 



The most troublesome, as well as the most frequent 

 swelling in the limbs, is that caused by inactivity, from high 

 feeding and want of due exercise. One kind is accompanied 

 by actual or comparative debility, or loss of power in the 

 part affected. Those horses which are over-fed, without 

 exercise, are liable to swellings in the limbs from the arterial 

 capillary vessels having sent forth an over-portion of fluid 

 to the extremities, and in consequence of the want of 

 muscular exertion and the perspiration naturally connected 

 with it ; and the fluids having accumulated in the extre- 

 mities, in consequence of the vessels not having sufficient 

 power to return them. The heart is thus acting upon an 

 additional quantity of fluid ; while, by the want of exercise, 

 the limbs are deprived of that power by which the fluids 

 are returned. 



Remedies. — The above physic and diuretic should be ad- 

 ministered. These will lessen the quantity of fluid ; also 

 exercise the horse freely, which will increase the perspiration 

 externally, and diminish it internally, and the veins and 

 absorbents will attain more activity, so that the complaint 

 will gradually subside, and the limbs resume their wonted 

 appearance. 



SWELLINGS AFTER GRASS. 



It is a common occurrence for horses just taken in from 



