1^8 THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 



sweating. If you intend to administer medicine at the 

 first symptoms of the malady, the greatest care should 

 be taken; lest the horse scratch you with his teeth, as 

 several have lost their lives through it : a thick leather 

 giove might not be inaptly used. The safest way is 

 always to destroy the animal when the disease begins 

 to make very rapid progress. 



BITES AND STINGS FROM VENEMOUS 

 REPTILES. 



The adder is the only reptile of the serpent tribe 

 known in England; these will occasionally, though 

 very rarely, inflict their venom on the horse, and fatal 

 consequences have sometimes resulted through neg- 

 lect. The most certain cure will be to give imme- 

 diately 



Spirit of Hartshorn - - 6 drachms. 



Salad Oil - - _ - 1 pint. 

 The same may be likewise applied outwardly to the 

 place bitten. The stings of hornets, wasps, and bees, 

 are of minor consequence, and may be speedily cured 

 by rubbing them with a little common blue indigo 

 made into a paste with a little water 



CONSUMPTION, 



Is a disease found among horses sometimes, although 

 by DO means so general as among mankind : it is ge- 



