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dom fails to give relief. Immediately after any 

 medicine is given, the horfe fliould be walked brifldy 

 for a quarter of an hour, and then his belly fhould 

 be well rubbed with a coarfe brufli, or it may be fo- 

 mented with hot wet cloths. The following clyller 

 I have known to do good, when every thing befide 

 had failed : — 



A large onion bruifed. 



Oil of turpentine, two ounces. 



Gruel, tripe liquor, or broth. 

 A quart; mix. 



INFLAMMATION of the BOWELS, called RED 



CHOLIC. 

 This, as we have faid, is an inflammation of the 

 bowels, and requires a very different treatment from 

 the former, beins; a much more ferious but a lefs fre- 

 quent complaint. It may be diftinguiflied from fimple 

 gripes by its having no ceffation or intervals of eafe; 

 for, though the horfe may ceafe to make violent ef- 

 forts, from fatigue, }et he will ftill appear reftlefs, in 

 pain, and his flanks will heave. To a perfon ac- 

 cuftomed to feeling a horfe's pulfe, this complaint 

 prefents ufually a great difference to that of gripes; 

 for in this cafe the pulfe is fmall and oppreffed, 

 but much quickened ; the ears and legs are cold; the 

 mouth dry and parched; and the horfe, though he 

 lies down, from the excefs of pain, yet he gets up 



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