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Form it into a ball with honey, and repeat it, daily, till the 

 bowels are restored ; when you may give the fever ball 

 above prescribed. 



Diabetes. — This is another disease of the kidneys, in- 

 duced by feeding on musty oats, or bad hay, or by too fre- 

 quent a repetition, by the groom, of the medicine termed 

 " diuretic balls," which some are particularly partial to 

 giving. It differs from the preceding disease, the jaun- 

 dice, that being a morbid or sluggish action of the kidneys, 

 ^n which the secretion of urine is not sufficiently active ; 

 while in diabetes, the vei ' -pposite is the case ; here the 

 kidneys may be said to do more than their healthy duty, 

 and produce too copious an evacuation of thickened mat- 

 ter, rather than the usual thin watery urine of health. 



The best way of curing this disease, is to allow the horse 

 but little drink, and give him a change of food, and that of 

 the best quality : should too free a use of diuretic medi- 

 cine have been a producing cause, then a few small doses 

 of aloes, given in combination with stomachics, and repea- 

 ted till the bowels be opened, may produce the desired re- 

 sult ; or the following stringent ball may be given with tho 

 best effects : 



Galls, and alum, finely powdered, each, two drams ; 



Peruvian bark, - . - half an ounce. 



Make it into a ball with honey, and repeat it every morn- 

 ing, and if the disease be obstinate, twice a day, about eve- 

 ry twelve hours, until the urine be diminished to its usual 

 and natural quantity and quality. 



In all cases of these kinds, after much medicine has been 

 given to operate upon the bowels, the following restora- 

 tive ball may be administered with advantage : 



Powdered ginger, ... two drams ; 



Gential root, powdered - - half an ounce ; 



Alum, .--... one dram. 

 Made into a ball with treacle, and repeated tw o or three 

 times. 



Inflammation of the Lungs. — The term by whicli 

 this disease is known among medical men, is Pneumonia. 

 Its first appearances are — a shiveiing fit, extreme dulness, 

 unwillingness to move, loss of appetite, and quickened 

 breathing. If not removed, more decided symptoms sue 

 ceed ; as coldness of extremities, oppressed pulse, expand 



