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from the water, sadly excoriates the parts; and some of it 

 perhaps may even enter tlie windpipe, and produce dreadful and 

 fatal inflammation. 



Opium, in some form or other, affords us the most effectual 

 and the safest remedy in this disease. In the former editions of 

 this work the following formula is given, and will be found 

 jrenerall v successful : — 



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Anodyne Carminative Tincture. 



No. 1. 



Turkey opium 1 oz. 



Cloves, bruised 2 oz. 



Ginger, ditto 3 oz. 



Brandy, rum, or gin 1 quart. 



No. 2. 

 Turkey opium, cloves, and ginger, of each... 1 oz. 

 The best old brandy, rum, or gin 1 quart. 



Let them be digested together in a well-corked bottle, and 

 sliaken several times a day for three or four weeks. It is then 

 to be strained through blotting paper, and is fit for use. The 

 medium dose is two ounces, which may be given in a little mild 

 ale, or an infusion of some aromatic herb, such as peppermint, 

 pennyroyal, camomile, &c. Mr. Bracey Clark recommends a 

 tincture made with allspice, bruised, half a pound; brandy, gin, 

 or rum, two quarts. 



When there is much flatulency exhibited, and the abdomen 

 appears distended with gas, nothing will pi'ove of greater eflicacy 

 than a full dose of sulphuric ether, Avhich, if conjoined with 

 tincture of opium, and an equal quantity of tincture of valerian, 

 or ginger, or allspice, and given with about three fourths of 

 a pint of warm or boiled water, will frequently aftbrd im- 

 mediate relief when other remedies have been exhibited un- 

 successfully, and more particularly if it be a case of flatulent 

 colic. Thus, it appears, we have a great variety of medicines for 

 this disease, and it is much better to conjoin several together 

 than to administer one alone ; because not only is the compound 

 dose likely to prove more successful, but if it becomes necessary 

 to repeat it several times, it is less likely to produce inflam- 

 mation than one kind of medicine given in the powerful dose 

 required. 



If the horse be not relieved in the course of ten minutes after 

 the exhibition of the medicine, it will be desirable to bleed, not 

 only in order to guard against inflammation, but because blood- 

 letting is itself a powerful antispasmodic, and often affords im- 

 mediate relief. 



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