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cattle is, the Overflowing of the 

 Gall, See that article. 



Horses are frequently subject to 

 this distemper, which is known hy 

 a dusky yellowness of the eyes : 

 The inside of the mouth and lips, 

 the tongue and bars of the roof of 

 the mouth looking also yellow. 

 The creature is dull, and refuses 

 all manner of food ; the fever is 

 slow, yet both that and the yellow- 

 ness increase together. The dung; 

 is often hard and dry, of a pale 

 yellow, or light pale green. His 

 urine is commonly of a dark dirty^ 

 brown colour; and when it has 

 settled some time on the pave- 

 ment, it looks red like blood. He 

 stales with some pain and difficulty, 

 and if the distemper is not checked, 

 soon grows delirious and frantic. 

 The off side of the belly is some 

 times hard and distended ; and in 

 old horses, when the liver has been 

 long diseased, the cure is scarce 

 practicable, and ends fatally with 

 a wasting diarrhoea : But when the 

 distemper is recent, and in young 

 horses, there is no fear of a reco- 

 very, if the following directions 

 are observed. 



'First of all bleed plentifully, and 

 give the laxative clyster, as hor- 

 ses are apt to be very costive in 

 this distemper ; and the next day 

 give him this purge : 

 Take of Indian rhubarb powdered, 

 one ounce and a half; safTron 

 two drams, succotrine aloes six 

 drams, syrup of buckthorn a 

 sufficient quantity. 

 " If the rhubarb should be found 

 too expensive, omit it, and add the 

 same quantity of cream of tartar, 

 and half an ounce of Castile soap, 



with four drams more of aloes, 



This may be repeated two or three 



times, giving intermediately the 



following balls and drink : 



Take of ^Etbiops mineral half an 



ounce ; millepedes the same 



quantity, Castile soap one ounce ; 



make into a ball, and give one 



every day, and wash it down 



with a pint of this decoction : 



Take madder root and turmeric, 



of each four ounces ; burdock 



root sliced, half a pound; Monk's 



rhubarb four ounces ; liquorice 



sliced two ounces : Boil in a 



gallon of forge water to three 



quarts ; strain ofT and sweeten 



with honey. 



"Balls of Castile soap and tur- 

 meric may be given also for this 

 purpose, to the quantity of three 

 or four ounces a day, and will in 

 most recent cases succeed. 



" By these means the distemper 

 generally abates in a week, which 

 may be discovered by an alteration 

 in the horse's eyes and mouth ; but 

 the medicines must be continued 

 till the yellowness is entirely re- 

 moved. Should the distemper 

 prove obstinate, and not submit to 

 this treatment, you must try more 

 potent remedies, viz. mercurial 

 physic, repeated two or three times 

 at proper intervals ; and then the 

 following balls : 



Take salt of tartar two ounces, cin- 

 nabar of antimony four ounces, 

 live millepedes and filings of 

 steel, of each four ounces, Cas- 

 tile or Venice soap half a pound : 

 Make into balls of the size of 

 pullets' eggs, and give one night 

 and morning, with a pint of the 

 above drink. 



