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ounces Glauber's falts, repeat in two or three 

 hours, warm gruel in the interim. The repe- 

 tition of thefe mufl be left to the judgment 

 of the praftitioner ; but plenty of warm gruel 

 and warm water, fhould ever, in thefe cafes, be 

 at immediate call, as fometimes the throwing in 

 two or three gallons of thefe at both ends, and 

 at proper intervals, will do the needful with 

 little or no alhftance from the apothecary. 

 Bracken cautions againft the common prac- 

 tice of farriers, who give large quantities of 

 Venice treacle, mithridate or diafcordium, both 

 by way of drink and clyfler, upon loaded in- 

 teftines ; thereby locking up the caufe of the 

 difeafe (till more fecurely : he compares it to 

 firing a piftol into the horfe's fundament, by- 

 way of clearing all obftrufctions at once. 

 Mafnes. A week after the cure, a gentle purge 

 or two. 



The Flatulent, or Wind Colic, is 

 known by great fullnefs and tenfion of the 

 belly, from rarefadion of the air contained in 

 the inteftines ; borborigmi, or rumbling of the 

 guts, difcharges of wind, and frequently ftran- 

 gury, occafioned by the fullnefs and preflure 

 of the ftreight gut upon the neck of the blad- 

 der; this laft is denoted by the horfe roHing 

 upon his back, and by frequent ine{fe61ual 

 attempts to dale. Crib-biters, from conflantly 

 fucking in large quantities of air, are particu- 

 larly fubjed to windy gripes. 



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