298 DISEASES OF THE CELLULAR MEMBRANE. 



ordinary practice is for the whole lot, well or ill, to get 

 physic the next morning after their arrival; and it occa- 

 sionally turns out that one which happened to be '' not quite 

 right/^ ^^ a little unwell," manifests an attack of inflamma- 

 tion of the lungs while purging. Profiting by this experi- 

 ence, I make it a rule to let the horses settle in their stables 

 before I order any physic ; and then I give from three to 

 four drachms of aloes. Any one that is " off his feed," or 

 in any manner evinces indisposition, I exempt from this 

 general physicking, and put into a loose box. In a fort- 

 night, the first dose of physic may be followed by a second ; 

 and this, from observation made on the first, we are prepared 

 to better apportion. In another three weeks, a third dose 

 may be administered. 



Under this system of management, experience' proves, 

 young horses may be preserved in health, or have those 

 maladies they are disposed to contract, either averted, or 

 divested of their violence. 



Should one among them have swelled legs, let him be 

 removed into a loose box, and take daily, until he purges. 

 No. 1 of the following balls : 



No. 1. 



Take of Purging Mass, 5ij ; 



Venice Turpentine, 3ij ; 



Nitre, powdered, 5j. 

 Mix, and make into a ball. 



No. 2. 



Take of Purging Mass, 3j ; 



Emetic Antimony, 5J ; 



Digitalis, 5ss. 

 Treacle suflScient to form a ball. 



No. 2 is the preferable medicine where the animal ex- 

 hibits febrile symptoms. 



Instead of twice, the horse should be walked out thrice 

 a day, unless fever forbid it ; in which case the exercise 

 must be diminished, or it may be abstained from altogether. 



