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ging powers till the conftitution is able to re-eftablifh 

 itfelf, will be of very material affiftance to the 



animal. 



And, a^ain, when a horfe may have been ex- 

 pofed to cold, and appears rather lluggifti from the 

 efFeds of it, without any ftrong fymptoms of difeafe, 

 in this cafe a proper cordial prevents the accefs of 

 what otherwife he might the next day labour under, 



— a cold. 



Tender horfes who readily purge, get out of con- 

 dition, and lofe their appetite on very flight exer- 

 cife, very frequently benefit by a cordial. In thefe 

 cafes, one proper cordial ball will frequently prevent 

 the necefTity of a fortnight or three weeks' adive care 

 to get fuch a horfe into condition again. 



Laftly ; after the inflammatory fymptoms of very 

 ferious colds are gone off, at the clofe of fevers, and 

 particularly where horfes are weakened by flrong 

 phyfic, in thefe cafes cordials are very ufeful. 



It is not only the cafes that require cordials that 

 fhould be attended to, but the drugs ufed for this 

 purpofe fliould be to the full as attentively examined. 

 Cordial balls have always been a fruitful fource of 

 gain to farriers, druggifts, &c. ; and but few perfons 

 are aware of the trafli they introduce into a horfe's 

 ftomach under this name. Even thofe who com- 

 pound good drugs, reafoning from analogy only, 

 make in mofl inftances, as cordials, compolitions 



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