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vice versa. The amount of exercise, kind of work, and con- 

 dition of the animal, are the modifying circumstances which are 

 to be taken into account, ere we can form any idea of the amount 

 of food required. A foul feeder should, in the intervals between 

 meals, be muzzled, or the bedding must be taken away. If the 

 animal has been fed on dry food, let him have a mixture of 

 boiled oats, shorts, and carrots, well seasoned with salt, to which 

 add daily half a table-spoonful of white mustard seed. We have 

 used brandy and salt, with very good effect, in several cases of 

 this kind — one pint of pale brandy to four ounces of fine salt; 

 dose, a wine glass, in oatmeal gruel, night and morning, just be- 

 fore meals. A sufficient quantity of good hay will be needed, in 

 order to distend the stomach to its healthy calibre, yet the ani- 

 mal must not be permitted to spend half his time eating; for 

 the digestive organs require regular periods of rest, just as other 

 parts of the system do. Attention must also be paid to the water 

 which the animal drinks : if it be inconvenient to substitute a 

 different kind, throw a handful of pulverized charcoal, daily, into 

 the water trough , this will improve the very worst kind, and 

 render it innoxious and palatable. 



In view of acting on the system at large, and improving the 

 general health, take 



Sirup of garlic, 2 ounces, 



Tincture of ginger, 2 drachms, 



Compound tincture of aloes and myrrh, 3 drachms, 



Tincture of muriate of iron, .... 1 drachm. 



Mix; to be given occasionally in oatmeal gruel. Or, if it be 

 more convenient, substitute the following : — 



Powdered assafcetida, 1 ounce, 



" ginger, 2 ounces, 



" sulphate of iron, 5 drachms, 



" goldenseal, 1 ounce, 



" poplar bark, 2 ounces, 



" capsicum, 1 drachm, - 



Oatmeal, 1 pound. 



Divide the mass into sixteen doses ; one to be given, in food, 

 every night. 



