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Give them all together. This should be repeated once a day, for 

 two or three days. 



The practitioner should carefully attend to the symptoms that ac- 

 company this disorder; for if the discharge be attended with an acrid 

 mucus, or slime, the griping pains being very severe, there is then a 

 sure indication that the common lining of the bowels is wasted away ; 

 and then it will be necessary frequently to inject the following clyster, 

 warm, in order to prevent the fatal consequences which will otherwise 

 soon ensue. 



Four ounces of starch, dissolved in a quart of water; half a pint of sweet oil, three 

 yolks of Eggs, well broken; and a little loaf sugar. 



This will do for twice, at four hours' distance. 



It is also necessary to observe that some horses, from having weak 

 stomachs and bowels, throw out their aliment undigested, and their 

 dung is habitually soft, and of a pale color ; they also feed sparingly, 

 and are always low in flesh. This complaint, which often proves 

 fatal at last, may be removed by the following medicines : 



6 drams of Socotrine Aloes. 



3 do. Rhubarb, in powder. 



1 do. Myrrh 



I do. Saffron. 



Make all up into a ball with syrup of ginger. After the above 

 stomachic purge shall have been given two or three times, a pint of 

 the following infusion should be given every morning : 



Take Gentian, Winter Bark, Orange Peel, Columbia Root, Aniseeds, Fennel Seeds, 

 and Camomile Flowers, of each a small handful and of Orris Root, two ounces. 



Boil all together in a gallon of strong ale ; and when cold, clear it 

 off, and add one pint of spirits of wine. If this be thought too strong, 

 two quarts more of ale may be added. This is an excellent cordial 

 both for healing and strengthening the stomach and bowels. These 

 are the best methods of treating the above disorders, to which horses 

 are often subject, and in which they are often lost for want of proper 

 treatment. 



But before we conclude this chapter, it is necessary to observe that 

 the scourings which succeed long-continued sickness, such as the 

 Farcy, Putrid Fevers, or an inflamed state of the blood, where bleed- 

 ing and other proper evacuations have been neglected, too often ter- 

 minate fatally; especially when the. creature discharges a foetid slime, 

 and when the same matter gleets from his nose ; for in these cases the 

 blood is dissolved, and the whole mass of the fluids is become putrid, 

 and discharges itself by those drains. 



DISORDERS OF THE KIDNEYS AND BLADDER. 



Inflammation of the kidneys and bladder are sometimes brought on 

 by other disorders, and often by sprains, hard exercise, catching cold 

 when hot, or from the want of proper care. 



Symptoms of a Hurt in the Kidneys. — The horse is very weak 

 in the back and loins ; he stales with difficulty, is faint, eats very little ; 

 his eyes appear languid, and of a dead color; his urine is foul, 



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