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tiers called " leannefs and miflike ;" recourfe 

 muft be had to a light and nourifhing diet, with 

 the daily afliftance of a cordial ball. In this 

 cafe, boiled meat has very fudden happy effefts. 

 Boiled barley or other corn. Turnips and 

 oatmeal boiled, fome of the liquor being infufed 

 in the drink. Boiled rice and potatoes. Baked 

 potatoes. Raw carrots and lucern. Mild rhu- 

 barb purge. Moderate walking exercife on dry 

 ground, as I have feen relapfe, and very dif- 

 agreeable effefts, enfue on the expofure of the 

 feet and legs to wet, in cafe of recent recovery 

 from fever. Grafs. 



The common fymptoms of fever in the horfe 

 are extraordinary heat and drynefs of the (kin* 

 jaws and tongue, (Irong breath, pulfe quicker 

 than natural, or intermittent, inflamed eyes* 

 heaving at the flanks, and impeded refpiration, 

 ears and the lower extremities hot, reftleffnefs 

 and fickle appetite, either to meat or drink, 

 fometimes avidity of drink, frequent cafting out 

 of dung-balls, and difficulty of (laling, high 

 coloured turbid urine. Thefe figns at their 

 commencement may indicate nothing more than 

 mild, fimple fever, but if neglefted in the com- 

 mon way, from want of obfervation, or on the 

 plea of neceffity, the difeafe cither becomes in- 

 flammatory and of inffant danger, or degene- 

 rates into that fpecies of fever which ufually 

 terminates in yellows or jaundice. 



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