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ease, and dungs and stales -well, you may conclude that tlie 

 danger is nearly over, and that nothing more is needful but 

 care to complete the cure. On the contrary, by overfeeding, 

 you will run the risk of bringing on a bad surfeit, and the 

 horse may be, according to the old saying, — killed with 

 keeping. 



Sometimes the fever returns ; so that every one who has 

 a horse in a fever should be careful of cold for some time 

 after, as his blood is left in a thin, bad state. His legs will 

 probably be subject to swell ; and if the swelling leave a 

 dimple when you press your finger upon it, it is a sign of a 

 dropsy ; in which case it will be advisable to put two rowels 

 on each side of his belly, and to give him half an ounce of 

 the best yellow bark every day for some time. At other 

 times a fever leaves a running at his nose, of a thin, yellow, 

 glueish matter, and small swellings below his ears and 

 chaps, ^yhen you find these symptoms, give one ounce of 

 crocus metalorum every day in a mash of bran, and rub the 

 swellings with mercurial ointment. 



Care should be taken to keep the head and throat warmer 

 than common, as the kernels about the latter are swelled ; 

 and also to promote a free perspiration, and to increase the 

 running at the nose, which has the same efl'ect in horses as 

 spitting has in the human species : but never syringe the 

 nose, as is often done, to promote the discharge, for it has 

 an effect quite contrary, and lessens the quantity of matter 

 instead of increasing it ; and checking the discharge of mat- 

 ter at the nostrils often causes swellings at the glands, and 

 other bad consequences. Let me once for all remind you 

 that all such discharges are critical, and thrown by Nature 

 to free herself fi-om the load that oppresses her, and conse- 

 quently should by all means be promoted. 



A Broken Wind. 



This disorder may sometimes be prevented, but can not 

 be cured ; and it has hitherto been as little understood as 

 any to which a horse is subject. People have had various 

 opinions respecting its cause, and why some horses are 

 more subject to it than others ; but of all the opinions hitherto 

 delivered, that of Mr. Gibson seems the best founded. He 

 thinks that it is frequently owing to the hasty or injudicious 

 feeding of young horses for sale ; by which means the 

 growth of the lungs is rapidly increased, and all the con- 

 tents of the chest so much enlarged, that in a few years the 

 cavity of the chest is not sufficient to contain them when 



