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down, an injection of warm water and salt, to which add an ounce 

 or two of tincture of assafoetida ; let the external surface be well 

 rubbed with wisps of coarse straw ; as soon as the fit is over, give 

 a drench of 



Powdered assafoetida, .... 2 drachms, 



Tincture of valerian, .... 1 ounce, 



Sirup of garlic, 2 ounces, 



Thin gruel, 1 pint. 



If the animal be not relieved in the course of six hours, repeat 

 the dose, and clear out the bowels with a dose of glauber salts, to 

 which add a small quantity of ginger. 



HYSTERITIS. — (Inflammation of the Womb.) 



The causes of inflammation in the w r omb are, difficult and pro- 

 tracted labor, abortion, and retention of placenta or foetal 

 envelopes. Mares most subject to this disease, as well as prema- 

 ture expulsion of the foetus, are the plethoric ; it generally comes 

 on a few days after labor, and, unless early arrested, will terminate 

 fatally. The objects in treating this disease are, to contract the 

 womb, (encircle the loins with cold water bandages,) and palliate 

 urgent symptoms ; keep the animal on gruel, and give a pint of 

 bethwort tea every four hours; attend to the state of the bowels; 

 if they are torpid, give a pint of olive oil, and follow it up with 

 flaxseed tea. Should the disease be connected with vaginitis, 

 (inflammation of the vagina,) the treatment is the same, with the 

 addition of cold water to the pudendum. 



FEVER IN HORSES. 



Fever should not always be treated as disease; for, in a great 

 majority of cases it is only symptomatic of some local or general 

 derangement. 



Fever is the same in its essential character under all circum- 

 stances and forms which it exhibits. The different "grades," as 

 they are termed, are but varieties of the same condition, produced 



