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ftrong, down their throats, and flurried them 

 up and down dreadfully, beating them with 

 cudgels. One of them had a very narrow 

 efcape, bat thanks to the doftor, or to the doc- 

 trefs Nature, he hngered through it. They had 

 both run that day, and their difeafe fe^med to 

 me to proceed from inanition, and having been 

 kept too long without fuflenance, deficcation of 

 the juices of the ftomach and inteftines, and in- 

 flammation from hard-fl:raining. 



The common symptoms in this fpecies are 

 violent ; the horfe difcovers pain if his flanks 

 or belly are prefled. The conjunftive mem- 

 brane of the eye appears much inflamed, the 

 anus the fame, and of a bright red colour ; 

 the high degree of inflammation is chiefly oc- 

 cafioncd by the acrimony of the bile. There 

 is an appearance of loofenefs in the beginning, 

 a little dung is ejected with a hot fcalding 

 water; fometimes a burning fever; and the 

 progrefs of inflammation fo rapid, that a mor^ 

 tification in the abdomen takes place in a few 

 hours. 



Bleed as largely as you can with fafety. In 

 the urgency of the cafe, and before medicines 

 can be obtained, gruel and fweet oil, or even 

 warm water and oil mixed, may be given at 

 either end. Caftor oil, one quarter to half a 

 pint; nitre, two ounces; camphor, one drachm; 

 make the drink with gruel, or decoflion of 



febrifuge 



