548 THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 



Nutritive Clyster. 



Take of thick gruel, well boiled, three quarts. 

 When nourishing clysters are found necessary, they 

 may be given four or five times a day, according as 

 circumstances may require. They are of considerable 

 service in cases where the horse cannot eat sufficiently 

 to support himself, nor swallow any thing from in- 

 flammation in the throat, jaws, &c., or from con- 

 vulsions, attended with locked-jaw, &c. 



Perhaps milk-gruel might be substituted with ad- 

 vantage. 



Diuretic Clyster. 



Take- 

 Venice Turpentine - - - 2 ounces. 

 Castile Soap - - - 1 ounce. 



Dissolve the soap in two quarts of warm water, then 

 add the turpentine, previously well beaten up with the 

 yolks of two eggs. 



This diuretic is of great use in strangury, and in 

 obstructions of the urinary passages. 



As it is immediately applied to the parts affected, it 

 seldom fails of giving relief, and has a much better 

 effect when prescribed in this manner than when 

 given by the mouth, because it then mixes with the 

 whole mass of fluids, and may lose a considerable 

 portion of its diuretic quality before it reaches the 

 kidnies ; but by being administered in the form of a 

 clyster, it is readily absorbed by the neighbouring ves- 

 sels, and promotes a free discharge of urine. 



It is unnecessary to multiply formulae for clys- 



