374 ON FEVER. 



the beft and fweetefl: hay fliould be offered hinis 

 as the praftical Gibfon well obferves, by handj 

 a method by v/hich moft horfes will be tempted 

 to feed, particularly if the food be tendered by 

 a favourite. At any rate, folid corn is highly 

 improper in fevers, unlefs in very fmall quanti- 

 ties, and ground, as an addition to the mafh, 

 and even that is mod befitting the decline of 

 the difeafe or convalefcent (late : the common 

 diet muft be hay, fcalded bran, or pollard, warm 

 frefh grains. 



On the re-eflablifhment of health, after any 

 acute difeafe, it will be found of material' con- 

 fequence to guard againfl: the too fudden return 

 of appetite in the horfe ; the inordinate in- 

 dulgence of which may induce furfeit, indigef- 

 tion, and the difagreeable concomitants of an 

 acceffion of crude and unconco61ed humours. 

 Bring him gradually to his accuftomed rations 

 of folid meat. To countera61 the ill effefts of 

 any morbid relics in the confliitution, a dofe or 

 two of purging phyfic, or a fhort alterative 

 courfe, may be expedient; the choice in which 

 muft be left, in all cafes, to the judgment of 

 thef practitioner, Vv'ho is referred to the Chapter 

 on Purgatives. On the contrary, fhould the 

 patient be left by the difeafe in a weak and im- 

 poverifhed ftate, the crafis of his blood brokenj . 

 his pulfe languid, and his appetite fmall, fhew- 

 ing in his whole appearance what the old far- 

 riers 



