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GASTRITIS. 



This disease is very rare, excepting in stables where 

 grooms think fit to poison their masters' horses with 

 arsenic. When gastritis or acute inflammation of the 

 stomach takes place, the existence of poison in the 

 system may safely be apprehended. The existence of 

 arsenic may be discovered by purging of a bloody 

 nature, and the flow of saliva from the mouth, which 

 take place. 



The only treatment likely to be of any avail, is the 

 frequent and liberal use of thin starch both as a drench 

 and clyster, which may tend to allay the violent in- 

 flammation of the mucous membrane. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE WOMB. 



This is one of the most dangerous diseases with 

 which the horse-breeder has to contend. It attacks 

 mares usually immediately after foaling, and is marked 

 by the following symptoms — delirium, acute fever, 

 laborious breathing, great prostration of strength, as 

 well as by the flow of a dark and very offensive fluid 

 from the fissure. The treatment must be very active 

 or it will be of no avail. Blisters must be applied to 

 the loins, the milk veins must be bled freely, and a ball 

 composed of digitalis, opium, and calomel, of each one 

 drachm, administered every two hours until the bowels 

 operate freely. 



I have taken as much as eight or nine quarts of 



