the coat of the horfe, in common with many other 

 animals, lengthens, and much new hair is added 

 alfo ; but that nothing may be given in vain, in the 

 fpring, a new coat, Hiort, fine, and adapted to the 

 approaching warmth, is given. Thefe changes are 

 called moulting; and the forming thefe coats ap- 

 pears to call much of the powers of the conftitution 

 forth J for at this time there is a great debility 

 pervading the animal frame, and the horfe is very 

 dull in fpirits : in fome inftances this becomes fo 

 great as to approach difeafe. When this is the cafe, 

 the exercife fhould be moderated, and malt mafhes 

 given ; and fliould it ftill continue obftinate, and the 

 hide becomes bound, it will be highly proper to give 

 a courfe of the 



Alterative Condition Powders [page 26] ; 

 and, after the}' are finifhed, to complete the cure, 

 give a 



Mercurial Purging Ball [page 23]. 



POULTICES. 



Bread would be too expenlive an article to make 

 poultices in common cafes. Bran, therefore, is very 

 commonly ufed ; and, to give it a proper confiilence, 

 fome linfeed meal may be mixed with it ; or, in de- 

 fault of this, a little of any other meal. A poultice 

 fliould be made of a fufficient confiflence, that 

 It may not run through the cloth it is put in ; and 



