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each ball must be broken into small pieces, on the end 

 of a stick, or what is better, a bit of whalebone, or the 

 ball may be dissolved in a pint of decoction of rue, and 

 given as a drench morning and evening, with a small 

 horn. 



Considerable time should be taken, and great care 

 and caution observed in the administration of medicine, 

 as awkwardness in manipulation increases the con- 

 vulsions of the poor brute, and may cause no alleviation 

 of his sufferings, or amelioration of his symptoms. 



CLASS V. 



JAUXDICE — PLEURISY COI'fSUMPTION LOSS OF APPETITE 



FARCY — GLANDERS FOUL FEEDING. 



Jaundice. 



This disease is generally attended with some local 

 affection of the liver. It may proceed from want of free 

 perspiration, or from anything that creates severe action, 

 especially from the liver — sometimes it is occasioned by 

 high feeding, or habitual costiveness. 



Symptoms.— This disease is indicated by the eyes ap- 

 pearing of a dusky yellow color ; the inside of the mouth 

 and lips, and eye-lids, also look yellow; the animal 

 appears dull and sluggish, and refuses all kinds of food ; 

 his urine is of a dark brownish color, and when lodged 

 on the ground, seems like blood ; he also stales with 

 difficulty ; his bowels are costive, and his motions of a 

 pale yellow color ; the pulse is irregular, and he is 

 feverish in a greater or lesser degree. 



Cure. — ^Various are the means proposed by farriers for 

 the proper mode of cuiing this disorder. Some recom- 

 mend bleeding in the first stage, which I have reason to 



