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Glauber's salts, and treacle, each, four ounces ; 

 Sweet oil, half a pint. 



The treacle and salts should be dissolved in the warra 

 water, and the oil then added, 



Before this clyster is administered, the lump of undi 

 gested mattsr, or hardened dung, the chief cause of the 

 disease, should be taken away : to do this, let a small hand 

 be dipped in the clyster, or rubbed with sweet oil, and 

 gently passed up the fundament, till it feels the dung, 

 which it should then bring away. Then administer the 

 clyster with a pipe about twelve inches long, and a strong 

 bladder, with the clyster in it, fixed at one end, through 

 which the clyster should be forced by twisting the bladder 

 with your hands. As soon as it is passed into the horse, 

 take away the pipe, and instantly hold a wisp of straw to 

 the fundament for about ten minutes. This is a better 

 way of administering a clyster than when given by a sy- 



rmge. 



Inflammation of the Intestines. — Like the prece- 

 ding^, this is an inflammatory complaint, and has a number 

 of names, as ententes, gripes, inflammatory colic, &c. — 

 Over exertion, sudden change of temperature, drinking 

 cold water while heated, or gi'eedily eating of new hay, 

 grass, or new corn, may induce it ; but as it impairs the 

 healthful action of the intestines, it must be removed, or it 

 increases in virulence and often terminates fatally. 



The presence of the complaint, usually first exhibiting 

 only windy colic, is indicated by the horse often lying down, 

 and suddenly springing up again ; he refuses his food, 

 stamps with his fore feet, and strikes his belly with his hind 

 feet ; his body is convulsed, his b/«-s turn up, and his 

 limbs stretch out with a spasmodic motion : his ears and 

 feet are sometimes hot and again cold ; he frills into a pro- 

 fuse perspiration, which is succeeded by shivering fits ; his 

 endeavours to stale, evidently painful, are without success : 

 he continually turns his head towards his flank, as if poir>t- 

 ii.g out the seat of pain ; he then falls djwn, rolls over and 

 turns on his back. 



The more advanced stage of the complaint is attended 

 with fever, heat and dryness of the mouth, tongue white, 

 skin hot and dry, except about the ears, which are mostly 

 cold ; continued pain in the belly : he lies down, and rises 

 E-gain suddenly, but in this stage of the disease, he does 

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