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casscs, Lave loose purging stools on the slightest exet- 

 tion : grooms and deaieis call these washy horses, 

 and it is found that they are not capable of much con- 

 tinued labour. In other cases it coincs en as a 

 sudden disease, occasioned by diiTereiit causes. Horses 

 comnionly purge on changing their food from dry 

 fed to £jrass. It is sometimes brought on bv cold, and 

 likewise by the application of some moibilic matter 

 in the air; or something of this kind may be gene- 

 rated in the stomach. Now and then it arises fiom 

 an increase of bile, in which case the stools are black 

 and fetid. See Jaundice. 



A continual dropping of a little excrement must 

 not be mistaken for purging, for this may take place 

 in absolute costiveness, and in dysenterv ; but in the 

 real diarrhoea, or looseness, the stools are copious and 

 liquid. 



The cure may be begun by starch clysters, and the 

 following drink given immediately upon it. 



Take opium r two drams. 



Powdered ipecacuanha... ..... .three drams. 



Prepared chalk... four ounces. 



Powdered t(ino;er two drams. 



Boiled starch one pint. 



Mix, and give morning and evening. 

 The superpurgation brouglit on by over-strong 

 physic is treated of under the head Physic. 



LOTIONS, or WASHES, 

 Are liquid applications, chosen in this form for 

 the convenience of compounding, or of application. 

 The washes I have thought proper t-o coD;pound, ar.d 

 keep ready prepared in my arrasigementcf medicines, 

 are. 



