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nights. Salt marshes arc the most proper places, when they can be 

 met with. 



When a horse has had this disorder, he can never more bear cold 

 and hard service as before. If the horse be of small value, the above 

 medicines will be thought too expensive, and you may give tar-balls, 

 ox tar water. Fine Norway tar is of very great use in diseases of the 

 lungs, and is to be made into balls in the following manner, which will 

 be useful either in consumption, a cough, or an asthma, and help them 

 as soon as most drugs that are make use of. 



1 ib. of fresh Norway or Stockholm Tar. 



4 oz. of Garlic. 

 Bruise the garlic, and work them up with liquorice powder into a 

 paste, and give two ounces at a time every other day. 



A SCOURING, AND OTHER DISORDERS OF THE INTES- 

 TINES. 



You should consider well what the Scouring proceeds from, wheth- 

 er it is caused by foul feeding, bad water, hard exercise, sudden heat 

 or cold, an overflowing of the bile, or a weakness of the intestines. 



If it is brought on by foul feeding, or bad water, it should not be 

 stopped, but rather be "promoted; for it should be remembered that 

 nature by this means throws off the seeds of disease, and evacuates 

 the morbid matter which would otherwise be retained to the great 

 disadvantage, and perhaps to the destruction, of the animal. The 

 great difficulty therefore consists in knowing when these discharges 

 are critical and salutary, and when detrimental and noxious ; for the 

 former must not be checked but the aid of medicine must be called 

 in to put a stop to the latter. 



For instance, — if a healthy horse, upon taking cold, or after hard 

 riding, over feeding, or at the beginning of a slight fever, have a mod- 

 erate purging, you must be careful not to stop it, but on the contrary to 

 promote it, by an open diet, and plenty of warm gruel. But if this 

 purging continue a long time, with smart gripings, and the inner skin 

 of the bowels come away with the dung, and the horse lose both his 

 flesh and his appetite at the same time, recourse must immediately be 

 had to proper medicines ; among which the following are very effectual. 

 I do not wish any one to give medicines upon merely hearing the names 

 of the drugs, but to know in what manner the drugs will operate 

 before they give them. Take — 



1 oz. of Rhubarb, in powder. 



2 drams Myrrh, do. 

 2 do. Saffron. 



Give altogether in warm ale, and warm water for two days after. 

 This dose will only work gently, but will be of great service to the 

 horse, as it will bring away the slime which lodges in the small intes- 

 tines, and correct the bile of the stomach, which is the cause of this 

 disorder. If the horse be a good one, I would advise the owner never 

 to refuse giving medicines because of the expense, as they will soon 

 make him ample amends by their salutary effects; and sometimes the 



