THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 4?' 



*' Tliis should be given milk-warm, and repeated 

 every day, at least till his dung comes away with ease, 

 and grows soft. His diet should be the best hay, 

 scalded bran, or boiled barley, till he has been tho- 

 roughly emptied, and for some time afterwards. At 

 first the dung that comes away in the clysters will be 

 in small hard balls, and sometimes along with it a 

 putrid slime, which when discharged gives great re- 

 lief, but, by a continuance of the clysters, and the open 

 diet, the dung soon alters, and comes away in such 

 great loads that it appears wonderful how it could have 

 passed through the fundament ; but as soon as this 

 happens it brings sure relief, and a passage is made 

 for gentle purges, which, in this case, are always 

 of great use. Take lenitive electuary, cream of tartar, 

 of each 4 ounces, and 2 ounces of brown sugar, mix 

 them in a pint and a half of ale, the ale to be made 

 hot, that the cream of tartar may be the more easily 

 dissolved in it ; after that the sugar, and last of all the 

 lenitive electuary. 



" This being given in the morning upon an empty 

 stomach, blood-warm, will probably begin to work be- 

 fore night ; and it seldom makes a horse sick, as the 

 stronger purges are apt to do when he is full and 

 costive, so that he will drink warm water, or warm 

 gruel, without reluctance. It may be repeated three 

 or four times, allowing always two or three days respite 

 between each draught, keeping in to an open diet, with 

 proper exercise, till he recovers his usual vigour. 



" By this method several horses have been cured 

 that were much affected with convulsive systems, and 

 t\ie event plainly showed that this aflection was owing 

 to a stoppage of the alimentary functions. Of this 

 the following was an instance : — A horse was sent from 

 llounslow Heath when the troops were encampea 



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