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TREATMENT. 



This would seem to be plainly indicated by the nature of 

 the disease. Bleed two or three times, at intervals of ten 

 days, drawing a gallon of blood the first time, and half as 

 much at each successive bleeding. Physic actively. Give 

 half an ounce of aloes in a pill, and, after a reasonable in- 

 terval, follow this up with one- fourth of a pound of Epsom 

 salts. 



Kow apply the magic nerve liniment, twice a day, to the 

 back, near the junction of the hips with the spine. If this 

 seems insufficient, substitute a daily application of the cor- 

 rosive liniment for two or three days. 



If the weather is cold, cover the horse with a good, warm 

 blanket, so as to protect him from it as much, as possible. 

 Nothing should be given as food but the lightest and most 

 relaxing diet, provided it does not produce dysentery. Strong 

 or heating food will be nearly certain to result in killing the 

 horse. 



INSANITY. 



John Bull's horses, like his dogs, appear not only to suffer 

 from affections of the brain to a much greater extent than 

 do ours, but also to exhibit, now and then, the most singular 

 and sometimes highly diverting idiosyncrasies. For any re- 

 putable American author to descant upon the horse's insan- 

 ity would lead most of his readers to question whether hia 

 own mental condition was much better; but, as a curious 

 and entertaining episode in the history of veterinary science 

 in other lands, we are tempted to close this chapter by draw- 

 ling upon the already much-quoted pages of Youatt for the 

 following ^necdotes, which that distinguished writer intro- 

 duces, by way of illustration, in his remarks upon "In- 

 sanity :" 



"A horse, seven years old, was remarkable for an habitual 

 air of stupidity, and a peculiar wandering expression of coun- 

 tenance. When he saw any thing that he had not been accus-, 

 tomed to, or heard any sudden or unusual noise, whether it 

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