'^66 ON PURSIVENESS, ASTHMA,- 



little hay as pofiible, and that of the hardeft 

 and beft kind, on the ground, or in a bafket ; 

 maflies, and an extra quantity of corn. Car* 

 rots are fpecilic in the cafe. If the patient be 

 even but a middhng cart-horfe, it will pay to 

 keep him to this regimen, inftead of the com- 

 mon garbage diet. A conflant run in upland 

 pafture, where the bite is not too large, fuits 

 thefe horfes beft ; but if once allowed this, 

 there feems a neceffity for it ever after, for if 

 taken intirely into the ftable again, their mala- 

 dy becomes intolerable. It is well known, 

 although not always remembered, that afthma- 

 tic horfes (hould be put to their fpeed by 

 degrees, and that they are incapable of any- 

 violent exertions. Out of refpe6l to the drug* 

 gifts, I ftiall fet down a few prefcriptions. 



The following is Bracken's fuccedaneum for 

 Gibfon s too expenfive balls, and even this is 

 expenfivc enough of confcience, in proportion 

 to the good it is likely to operate, although per- 

 haps it would be difficult to contrive a better 

 form. It muft be remembered, that medicines 

 intended to open obftru6lions in the lungs, 

 have the whole tour of the circulation to make, 

 and that they have not the power, as the far* 

 riers fuppofe, immediately to enter the doors 

 of the difeafe, and eje6l the tenant. 



Recipe. Haifa pound cordial ball, if it be too 

 dry add half a pint fine Florence oil ; balfam 



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