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Symptoms, and Treatment. 



discovered by the different positions the horse 

 constantly puts himself in. When both his fore 

 feet are affected, the hinder feet are brought 

 forward, by which means the fore feet are greatly 

 relieved from the pressure they otherwise would 

 have to endure; and where only one foot is af- 

 fected, the horse is always attempting to relieve it, 

 either by putting it forward, or letting it rest upon 

 fhe toe. But when all four feet are diseased, the 

 horse cannot be a moment at ease while standing ; 

 his desire is to lay down continually, and if he is 

 made to rise, it is with the greatest difficulty. 

 After the horse has been prepared with mashes of 

 scalded bran for two or three days, it will be pro- 

 per to give him the following compound mercurial 

 ball. 



(RECIPE, No. 181.) 



Take — Calomel, and white antiraonial powder, of each 

 one drachm; 

 Opium, and camphor, of each half a drachm; 



