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Give a ball once a day, composed of carbonate of iron, crentian, 

 and ginger, of each two dracbms, mixed with honey to form a mass ; 

 allow liberal rations, and exercise moderately. Or else give every 

 day for a fortnight a ball containing sulphate of iron half a drachm, 

 with gentian, ginger, and turmeric, of each one drachm. 



Again : Administer five drachms of aloes in a ball. After the 

 effects of this have passed off, sprinkle nightly over a feed of oats 

 half an ounce of liquor arsenicalis ; the administration of the latter 

 to be continued for six weeks. 



Carrots are highly restorative and alterative, and are always given 

 raw, thinly sliced, with their food every day for six weeks. No food 

 is more restorative after a severe illness. They are good for coughs, 

 grease, and foul humours, and are, besides, very cooling to the blood. 



Nettle-seeds (about twenty seeds a day only) were once considered 

 a remedy with jockeys and others. 



Try pounded gorse, it improves the coat ; about two handfuls a day. 



To keep a horse in good condition care must be taken as to what 

 you feed him on : — One fourth barley and three-fourths oats, with a 

 slight admixture of beans when given to the horse, tends more than 

 any other com to produce the muscle and fat which is wasted during 

 the working hours. Barley does not offer so great an amount of 

 flesh-forming compounds, but tends more to the formation of fat. 

 Beans contain twice the amount of flesh-producing substances either 

 of oats or barley. 



Condition Powders. — 1. Black antimony, 4oz. ; flowers of sulphur, 

 2oz, ; bean-flour or barley-meal, -|-lb, ; a table-spoonful with their 

 corn. 2. Sulphur, 21b. ; fenugrec, 41b. ; cream of tartar lib. ; 

 liquorice, lib. ; nitre, lib. ; black antimony, lib. ; gentian, ^Ib. ; 

 aniseed, jlb. ; common salt, lib. Mix well; dose, loz. daily. 

 Give your horses plenty of walking exercise for six weeks, with 

 one or two physic balls — the feeding at first should be gradual. 

 Horses should have a large piece of chalk or hard lime put in 

 their water-cask. In India, 2oz. of powdered catechu are given 

 for some time, for the purpose of taming vicious horses ; while in 

 some parts of France jockeys are said to stupify vicious horses for 

 sale by tobacco suffused in spirits. 



CONGESTION OF THE LUNGS. 



The predisposing causes of this affection are plethora, occasioned 

 by high feeding (particularly upon beans), hot stabling, warm 

 clothing, and by exercise to which the creature has never previousl)^ 

 been subjected, and which render the lungs more susceptible to cold 



