THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 5%9 



ters, as the following is perhaps the best that can be 

 adopted, viz., 



Epsom Salts - - - - 4 ounces. 

 Thin Gruel - - - - 4 quarts. 



Mr. Clark of Edinburgh observes that there are 

 many cases where clysters may be administered with 

 great success, besides those already hinted at, as in 

 inflammatory fevers, spasmodic constrictions, and 

 colicky complaints in the bowels, in recent coughs, 

 apoplexy, convulsions, paralytic complaints, swelling 

 of the belly, whether from air or from hardened ex- 

 crements. 



They are required also in cases where horses are 

 troubled with worms, as the ascarides, which lodge in 

 the lower part of the intestines, or where bots are ob- 

 served sticking in the anus, or voided in the dung ; in 

 very costive habits, before laxative or opening me- 

 dicines are given by the mouth ; in wounds which 

 penetrate deep into the muscular or tendinous parts, 

 or in the belly, &c. ; in inflammation of the eyes, or 

 when the head seems particularly affected ; in inflam- 

 matory swellings on any part of the body. Clysters 

 composed of mucilaginous substances, as starch, lin- 

 seed, &c., are also of great benefit in cases of violent 

 diarrhoea, whether proceeding from natural causes, or 

 from too strong purging medicines given by ignorant 

 farriers . 



It ought always to be remembered, that clysters 

 should be repeated frequently, till such time as the 

 disorder for which they are given is either removed or 

 greatly relieved. This injunction may be the more 

 readily complied with, as the administering clysters to 

 horses is not attended with either much trouble to the 

 operator or disturbance to them 



It fi'equently happens in colics and other complaints 



