regard to HORSES. 7 



fometimes creates a heat and drynefs ; 

 when therefore a kindly moid breathing 

 is notdiftinguifhed by the feel of the fldn, 

 on the life of this medicine, it mufc be 

 fufpended, till this falatary evacuation is 

 reftored by the above remedies. 



Thefe antimonials (hould not be given should 

 grofsly powdered, as is generally pra(5tifed, be finely 

 but. ground very fine*, otherwife little P°^'^^^* 

 of them will pafs into the blood, but will 

 fometimes, when given in large dofes, 

 fcour themfelves off Vv'idiout entering the 

 mafs at all. 



When horfes are foiled in the flable, Whsther^ 

 care fliould be taken that the herbage bagethe 

 is young, tender, and full of fap ; whe- f^-^^I^^^^^ 

 ther it be green barley, tares, clover, 

 or any thing elfe the leafon produces, 

 and that it be cut freQi once every day at 

 lead, if not oftener ^ for, when herbage 

 is old and fibrous, it is divefted of the 

 fap, has a tendency to putrefadiion, and 

 frequently caufes ob{lru61ions in the 

 bowels •, which are fometimes of bad 

 confequence, unlefs an evacuation is pro- 

 cured, when the dung has often appeared 

 not unlike what has laid a confiderable 

 time, mellov/ing and rotting on a dung- 

 hill, 



B 4 When 



