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accelerating the circulation, and keeping up the flag- 

 ing powers till the constitution is able to re-establish 

 itself, will be of very material assistance to the 

 animal. 



And, again, when a horse may have been ex- 

 posed to cold, and appears rather sluggish from the 

 eiiects of it, without any strosig symptoms of disease, 

 in this case a proper cordial prevents the access of 

 what othervv'ise he might the next day labour under, 

 — a cold. 



Tender horses who readily purge, get out of con- 

 dition, and lose their appetite on very slight exer- 

 cise, very frequently benefit by a cordial. In these 

 cases, one proper cordial ball will frequently prevent 

 the necessity of a fortnight or three weeks' active care 

 to get such a horse into condition again. 



Lastly ; after the infianmiatory symptoms of very 

 .•<erious colds are gone off, at the close of fevers, and 

 particularly where horses are weakened by strong 

 physic, in tliese cases cordials are very useful. 



It is not only the cases that require cordials that 

 shculd be attended to, but the drugs used for this 

 purpose sliould be to the full as attentively examined. 

 Cordial balls have always been a fruitful source of 

 gain to farriers, druggists, &c.; and but few persons 

 are aware of the trash they introduce into a horse's 

 stomach under this name. Even those who com- 

 pound good drugs, reasoning from analogy only, 

 make in most instances as cordials, corapositions 

 wholly inert. A horse's stomach bears little analoev 

 to a man's. Four grains of emetic tartar irritate the 

 luiman stomach to absolute danger : four ounces even 

 have not so much eii'ect on the stomach of a hGrse^ 



