224 THE MODERN HOE8E DOCTOR. 



" But should he still be losing strength, in taking the capsicum 

 and camphor he must have added to them, night and morning, 

 from three to four drachms of finely-powdered cascarilla. Injec- 

 tions must be used twice a day whilst the bowels are costive, 

 composed of half an ounce of castile soap to a quart of warm 

 water, and four ounces of epsom salts dissolved in a quart of warm 

 water, alternately. The throat must be gargled every two hours, 

 with a tea made by pouring half a gallon of boiling water on six 

 drachms of capsicum, and when cool add a pint of good vinegar. 

 The throat externally must be well rubbed with the following 

 mixture three or four times a day : half a pint spirits of harts- 

 horn, ditto of turpentine, ditto of camphor, all mixed and kept 

 well corked. If the horse is down and unable to get up, he must 

 be helped whenever he struggles to get up. 



" I have now given you a short outline of the causes, symp- 

 toms, treatment, &c, as you desired me to do. I have not car- 

 ried out in detail the different heads alluded to as I could have 

 desired, but I trust the hints which I have thrown out will dispel 

 some of the doubts and darkness that hang over this disease ; and 

 if the prescriptions here given are timely and judiciously applied, 

 they will arrest the disease in a number of cases, and stay the 

 astonishing waste of property that we so frequently hear of. 

 " With respect, I remain your friend, 



"Isaiah Michener, V. S." 



DISEASES OF THE MOUTH. 



SLAVERING. — {Augmented Salivary Secretion.*) 



Slavering horses are frequently met with in farming districts, 

 where clover is used as an article of fodder. There seems to be 

 some peculiar property about the flowers of clover which renders 



* Shoicing the abundance of the Salivary Secretion. — Mr. Charles Dickens, a 

 veterinary surgeon of Kimbolton, lias taken the trouble to ascertain the amount 

 of saliva secreted by a parotid gland; he was enabled to make the experiment 



