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382 AMERICAN FAEMER'S HORSE BOOK 



jaw, and the like, in which either nutrition can not be intro- 

 duced into the stomach at all, or it is hazardous to do so. 



We subjoin a list of some of the clysters that may be given 

 the horse in different cases, with the ingredients of each. 

 In all cases, we prefer the clyster in solution to the ball, 

 with the exception of the food-ball, which is undoubtedly a 

 better means of giving food to the horse than the solution : 



Aperient Clysters. — Solution of Aloes 4 dr. 



Solution of Epsom salts .... 8 oz. 



Solution of assafetida i oz. 



Lard 1 pint. 



Turpentine (in a pint of warm 



water) 1 table-spoonful. 



Cooling Clysters. — Solution of Epsom salts 4 oz. 



Salt and water 1 pint. 



Slippery elm mucilage \ pint. 



Astringent Clysters. — Laudanum (in a pint of warm water). 1 oz. 

 Blackberry root tea (in a pint of warm 



water) 1 gill. 



Nutrition Clysters. — Meal gruel (warm) 1 quart. 



Slippery-elm mucilage (thickened 



with meal) 1 pint. 



Arrowroot (thickened with meal).. . 1 pint. 



Sweet milk (thickened with flour) . . 1 pint. 



Each of the above is to be used separately as a clyster. 

 The practitioner must exercise his own judgment in select- 

 ing from each class that which will probably be most suc- 

 cessful in the particular case he has in hand. 



The aperient and food balls may be composed of the ma- 

 terials indicated in their respective classes, with the addition 

 of flour. The ball should be about three inches in thickness. 



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