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or other feeding) for eighteen days, and a purge the 

 nineteenth morning. 



The horse may get moderate work during the ad- 

 ministration of the powders. 



Common salt is also considered a good remedy: 

 about a tablespoonful daily mixed with the food. 



To guard against these pests, avoid the use of Egyp- 

 tian beans; but as "bots " are mostly taken in at grass 

 by the animal licking off and swallowing their larvae laid 

 in the hair of the legs, it is almost impossible to ex- 

 clude them. In a few cases they are bred in the in- 

 ternals without any accountable cause, and against this 

 no precaution can avail. 



Liver Diseases, or the farriers' "Yellows," so called 

 from the fact that such cases are marked by the eyelids, 

 linings of the nose, and lips when turned up, being 

 found to be tinged more or less with yellow. 



Here mercury must be administered, and aided by sub- 

 sequent purging, as is necessary with the human subject. 



Thus, give half a drachm to a drachm of calomel 

 mixed in a little flour, and put in a mash of bran one 

 evening, and next morning follow it up with the aloes 

 purge-ball (page 108). 



If the "yellows" be very marked, with other de- 

 rangement of the system, give for two days one drachm 

 of calomel daily in doses of half a drachm each, mixed 

 in mashes as described above ; and after two drachms 

 have been taken in this way, administer on the third 

 morning the aloetic purge. 



Inflammation of the Kidneys and Bladder. — "With 

 regard to internal inflammation arising from various 

 causes, the symptoms of distress bear a general resem- 

 blance to each other : legs spread out, extremities cold, 



