1U6 ON WATER. 



troughs or buckets. The quantity of Ume used, should 

 be such as to produce rather a nauseous taste. The 

 water being thus impregnated and given them to drink, 

 generally puts a stop to the disease. Horses, so affect- 

 ed, are rather shy in drinking at first ; but the com- 

 plaint being attended with some degree of fever, they 

 are mostly dry, and although the water is unpleasant 

 to their taste, yet to gratify their thirst, they soon come 

 to drink it. 



If the above remedy does not shortly remove the 

 disease, it would be advisable in the groom to call in 

 the aid of a good practical veterinary surgeon, who 

 will instantly have recourse to such other treatment as 

 from the symptoms he will see requisite for the relief 

 of the horse. 



The remarks I have here offered, relative to water 

 and the watering of horses, are the result of the obser- 

 vations I have made during my practice in the stables; 

 and I have at all times adhered to the system which 

 I have laid down, whenever I have had horses under 

 my own care, and with the happiest results. I am 

 aware that these precautions are scarcely necessary to 

 good, careful, and experienced training grooms ; but as 

 I am writing for the information of grooms in general, 

 they are such as, I deem, may at times be found avail- 

 able by many. / 



